HMS Cowdray (L52)

Casualty List

Type:

Destroyer

Class:

Hunt Type (ii)

Pennant:

L 52

Built by:

Scotts

Laid down:

30 April 1940

Launched:

22 Jul    1941

Commissioned:

29 Jul    1942

History Bombed off Algiers in November 1942, repaired and recommissioned.

HMS Cowdray was allocated to the Royal Hellenic Navy as Admiral Hastings from March 1944 until June 1944. She was never commissioned into the R.H.N. due to the mutinous state of the Greek Navy. Scrapped at Gateshead on 3 September 1959. 

 

 

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