USS Branch DD-197
HMS Beverley H-64

Type:
Destroyer
Class:
Clemson (U.S.N.)
Town (R.N.)

Builder:
Newport News Shipbuilding and
Drydock Company
Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.
Hull Number:
DD-197 (U.S.N.)
H-64 (R.N.)
Ordered:
February 14, 1918
Commissioned:
July 26, 1920 (U.S.N.)
October 9, 1940 (R.N.)

Keel Laid:
October 25, 1918
Decommissioned:
October 8, 1940 (U.S.N.)
Launched:
April 19, 1919
Stricken:
January 8, 1941 (U.S.N.)
Fate:
Sunk April 11, 1943 by U-188 (Kapitänleutnant Siegfried Lüdden)

Location: North Atlantic, 630 miles northeast of St. John's, Newfoundland.
52.19N - 40.28W

148 crewmen killed, 4 survivors.
(Roll of Honour)


Combat Victories
Date
Name
Type
Tons
Nationality
Notes
Feb. 4, 1943
U-187
Submarine
1,120
Germany
Assisted


Notes
Oct. 9, 1940:
Lend-lease to United Kingdom, renamed HMS Beverley H-64.


Class Overview
Builder's Data
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