HMS Beverley

HMS Beverley (H64)

Navy:	Royal Navy
Type:	Destroyer
Class:	Town
Pennant:	H 64 (Number reallocated from HMS Duchess after she sank)
Built by:	Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.)
Laid down:	25 Oct, 1918
Launched:	19 Apr, 1919
Commissioned:	9 Oct, 1940
Complement:	159
Lost:	11 Apr, 1943 (Lt. Cdr. R.A. Price, RN.) at 05.52 hours in position (52.19.00N 040.28.00W) Pos.Approx. Southwest of Iceland two torpedoes were fired, by U-188 (Lüdden). Allied records indicate that HMS Beverley (H64) was hit and sunk at that time. There were only 4 survivors out of a crew of 159
Battle Honours ATLANTIC 1940-43 - MALTA CONVOYS 1941 - ARCTIC 1942

History: Former:	On 9 Apr, 1943, HMS Beverley (H 64) had been seriously damaged in a collision with the British steam merchant Cairnvalona (4929 tons) and took station in the rear of the convoy, until she was torpedoed later, by U-188 fired a torpedo at the convoy ON-176 southwest of Iceland. At 05.50 hours, two more torpedoes were fired at HMS Beverley 4 Feb, 1943 The German submarine U-187 was sunk in the North Atlantic, in position 50.12N, 36.35W, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Vimy and HMS Beverley. USS Branch (DD 197)