Navy:

RN

Type:

Destroyer

Class:

Town 

Pennant:

I 80 

Built by:

Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 

Laid down:

25 Sep, 1918 

Launched:

26 Apr, 1919 

Commissioned:

23 Oct, 1940 

20 Sep, 1943 

USS Rodgers decommissioned 23 October 1940 and was transferred and commissioned the same day for service in the 4th "Town" Flotilla as HMS Sherwood

Sherwood sailed for the United Kingdom 1 November. Diverted en route, she participated in the search for survivors of ships lost from convoy HX 84 and in the subsequent hunt for Admiral Scheer, when returning to Canada for repairs. On the 18th, she arrived at Belfast, continued on to Portsmouth whence, after overhaul, she sailed to join the 12th Escort Group, Western Approaches Command at Londonderry. Transferred, with her group, to Iceland in April 1941, she joined in the hunt for Bismarck in May and on the 28th, the day after the German battleship had been sunk, assisted in rescue operations for survivors from British destroyer HMS Mashona.

During the summer, Sherwood underwent repairs in the Clyde, then returned to Londonderry, whence she operated first with the 2d Escort Group, then with the 22d, into the new year, 1942. In February and March, she accompanied carriers during trials, and, after another yard period, April to August served as a target ship for training aircraft from the Royal Naval Air Station at Fearn, Scotland. In the autumn, she again crossed the Atlantic and served with the Newfoundland Command until she returned to Londonderry in February 1943. During March and April she escorted a convoy to Tunisia and back, but by May she again needed major repairs.

Worn out, she was paid off at Chatham on 20 September 1943. She was stripped of useable parts and ordnance and towed to the Humber where she was beached in shallow water for use as an aircraft target. Her hulk was scrapped in 1945.