HMS_Campbeltown_and_Castleton.jpg

Summary

Description IWM caption : Two destroyers photographed shortly after the Royal Navy acquired them from America under the Destroyers for Bases agreement HMS CASTLETON , left, and HMS CAMPBELTOWN , lying side by side while undergoing refit. The ships were sailed across the Atlantic by British crews. On the left are two Polish sailors.
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This photograph A 952 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01)
Author Ware, C J (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer

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HMS Campbeltown

inception

September 1940