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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