Monday, March 30, 2020
USS Swasey (DD-273)
USS Swasey (DD-273)
was a Clemson class destroyer that had a limited US career, but went
to Britain as part of the Destroyers for Bases deal as HMS Rockingham.
In British service she served as an Atlantic convoy escort ship and
troops convoy escort, before being converted into an air target ship in
1943. She sank after hitting a British mine on 27 September 1944
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