HMS Atherstone (L05)
Navy: | Royal Navy |
Type: | Escort destroyer |
Class: | Hunt (Type I) |
Pennant: | L 05 |
Built by: | Cammell Laird Shipyard (Birkenhead, U.K.) |
Laid down: | 8 Jun, 1939 |
Launched: | 12 Dec, 1939 |
Commissioned: | 23 Mar, 1940 |
End service: | Sold to be broken up for scrap on 23 November 1957. |
History: | Scrapped at post Glasgow on 25 November 1957. |
Battle Honours; English Channel 1940 – 1942 St Nazaire 1942 North Sea 1942 – 1943 Atlantic 1943 Sicily 1943 Salerno 1943 Mediterranean 1943 South of France 1944 Adriatic 1944 |