USS Buchanan (DD-131) [SEP] vessel class
USS Buchanan (DD-131)
USS "Buchanan" (DD-131), named for Franklin Buchanan, was a in the United States Navy.
"Buchanan" was transferred to the United Kingdom under the Destroyers for Bases Agreement in 1940 and served as HMS "Campbeltown" (I42). She was destroyed during the St. Nazaire Raid: at 1:34 on 28 March 1942, loaded with four tons of amatol explosive, the ship rammed the gates of the "Forme Ecluse Louis Joubert" dry dock. The ship exploded the
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- Decommissioned: 15 January 1946 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap 16 May 1946
- Operations: World War I convoy escort, minelayer conversion, Attack on Pearl Harbor, Solomons, Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, Okinawa
Ships in class USS "Buchanan" (HMS "Campbeltown").
- Designation: Destroyer No. 131, DD-131.
- Builders: (Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine)
- Laid down: 29 June 1918
- Launched: 2 January 1919