USS Swasey (DD 273)

Navy:	US Navy
Type:	Destroyer
Class:	Clemson
Pennant:	DD 273
Built by:	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Laid down:	27 Aug, 1918
Launched:	7 May, 1919
Commissioned:	8 Aug, 1919
End service:	26 Nov, 1940 and transferred to Royal Navy

History:	Decommissioned on 10 June 1922 Recommissioned on 18 December 1939 and transferred to the Royal Navy on 26 November 1940.
Transfered:	to Royal Navy as HMS Rockingham (G 58)

Navy:	The Royal Navy
Type:	Destroyer
Class:	Town Class
Pennant:	G 58
Built by:	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Laid down:	27 Aug, 1918
Launched:	7 May, 1919
Commissioned:	26 Nov, 1940
Complement:	145
Lost:	27 Sep, 1944 Struck a mine and sank in tow about 30 miles southeast of Aberdeen in (c 56°30'N, 01°00'W), while acting as target ship for aircraft training.

History:	HMS Rockingham (Lt.Cdr. John Cecil Cooper, RNVR) struck a mine and sank in tow about 30 nautical miles south-east of Aberdeen in position 56º29'N, 00º57'W, while acting as target ship for aircraft training. *Commanding Officers:* Cdr. Lancelot Milman Shadwell, RN 26 November 1940 – 1 March 1941 Lt.Cdr. Arthur Henry Tyndall Johns, RN 1 March 1941 - ??? HMS Rockingham in Dockyard Control during refit Lt.Cdr. Norman Winder Duck, RNR 20 August 1942 – 7 November 1943 DSC awarded on 25 August 1942 Lt. Anthony Richard Taudevin, DSC, RNVR 7 November 1943 – June 1944 T/Lt.Cdr. John Cecil Cooper, RNVR June 1944 – 27 September 1944 HMS Rockingham is not listed in the January 1945 Navy List
Former name:	USS Swasey