Navy:

RN

Type:

Destroyer

Class:

Town 

Pennant:

G 88 

Built by:

Mare Island Navy Yard (Vallejo, California, U.S.A.) 

Laid down:

10 Jul, 1917 

Launched:

15 Dec, 1917 

Commissioned:

26 Nov, 1940 

End service:

16 Jul, 1944 

Commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Richmond 5 December 1940. She arrived at Plymouth, England, 31 December 1940 to join the escorts sailing out of Liverpool in the Western Approaches Command. These ships guarded the movement of vital convoys through the most dangerous waters of their passage across the Atlantic. Between June and October 1941, she performed similar duty in the Newfoundland force, and from February 1942 through March, made the dangerous run to Murmansk. Her base for Atlantic escort duty between December 1942 and August 1943 was Greenock, Scotland. From august 1943 Richmond served in the Royal Canadian Navy, based at St. John's, Newfoundland, until December 1943, when with newer escorts available, she was placed in reserve in the Tyne. On 16 July 1944 she was transferred to the Russian Navy. as USSR Zivuchij and scrapped in 1949

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