HMS CAMPBELTOWN IN DOCK 7

HMS CAMPBELTOWN ( EX USS Buchanan ) A BRITISH TOWN CLASS DESTROYER 1919

FWD PORT QTR VEIW -------- AFT PORT QTR VEIW

A CLOSE UP VEIW OF THE BRIDGE AREA

DETAIL OF MIDSHIPS SECTION WORK RQD ---------- AFT VEIW WITH PARTS THAT NEED UPGRADE

OVERHEAD VEIW OF BASIC BOW DETAILS

BOW OVERHEAD VEIW --------- STERN OVERHEAD VEIW

PORT SIDE BASIC DETAIL WORKS SO FAR

BOW VEIW ----------- STERN VEIW

STD VEIW OF WORK SO FAR

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Name: USS Buchanan
Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, USA
Laid down: 29 June 1918
Launched: 2 January 1919
Commissioned: 20 January 1919
Decommissioned: In reserve from 1939

Fate: Transferred to the Royal Navy on 3 September 1940

United Kingdom
Class and type: Town-class destroyer

Name: HMS Campbeltown
Commissioned: 9 September 1940

Honours and
awards:

ATLANTIC 1941-42
ST NAZAIRE 1942

Fate: Expended on 28 March 1942 in a special operation against the docks at Saint Nazaire
Badge: On 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
Displacement: 1,260 long tons (1,280 t)
Length: 314 ft 4 in (95.81 m)
Beam: 30 ft 6 in (9.30 m)

Draught:

9 ft (2.7 m) (light)
12 ft (3.7 m) (full load)

Installed power: 30,000 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)

Complement: 158
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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