HMS Campbeltown (I42)

HMS Campbeltown was a Town-class destroyer of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She was originally US destroyer USS Buchanan, and was one of 50 obsolescent U.S. Navy destroyers transferred to the Royal Navy in 1940 as part of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement. Campbeltown became one of the most famous of these ships when she was used in the St Nazaire Raid in 1942.

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Campbeltown.

The newly transferred HMS Campbeltown (right) alongside her sister HMS Castleton
History
United States
NameBuchanan
NamesakeFranklin Buchanan
BuilderBath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, US
Laid down29 June 1918
Launched2 January 1919
Commissioned20 January 1919
DecommissionedIn reserve from 1939
FateTransferred to the Royal Navy on 3 September 1940
United Kingdom
NameCampbeltown
Namesake
Commissioned9 September 1940
Honours and
awards
  • Atlantic 1941–42
  • St Nazaire 1942
FateExpended on 28 March 1942 in a special operation against the docks at Saint-Nazaire
BadgeOn a Field White, within an annulet Blue charged in base with a mullet White a sprig of myrtle proper.
General characteristics
Class and type
  • Wickes-class destroyer
  • Town-class destroyer
Displacement1,260 long tons (1,280 t)
Length314 ft 4 in (95.81 m)
Beam30 ft 6 in (9.30 m)
Draught
  • 9 ft (2.7 m) (light)
  • 12 ft (3.7 m) (full load)
Installed power30,000 shp (22,000 kW)
Propulsion
  • 2 × Brown-Curtiss single reduction geared steam turbines
  • 4 × Normand return-flame boilers
  • 2 × shafts
Speed
  • Design: 35.5 kn (40.9 mph; 65.7 km/h)
  • Trials (1919): 39.7 kn (45.7 mph; 73.5 km/h)
Complement158
Armament
  • As built:
  • 4 × 4 in (100 mm)/50 cal guns
  • 1 × 3 in (76 mm)/23 cal anti-aircraft gun
  • 6 × 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes
  • Conversion for St Nazaire Raid:
  • 1 × 12-pounder gun
  • 8 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons
  • 4.5 short tons (4.1 t) amatol explosive charge (consisting of 24 × Mark VII depth charges)
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