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HMS Leamington (G19)

HMS Leamington
HMS Leamington, ex-Twiggs
History
United States
Name: USS Twiggs
Namesake: Levi Twiggs
Builder: New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey
Laid down: 23 January 1918
Launched: 28 September 1918
Commissioned: 28 July 1919 to
Decommissioned: 24 June 1922
Recommissioned: 20 February 1930
Decommissioned: 6 April 1937
Recommissioned: 30 September 1939
Decommissioned: 23 October 1940
Struck: 8 January 1941
Identification: DD-127
Fate: Transferred to UK, 23 October 1940
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Leamington
Acquired: 23 October 1940
Identification: G19
Fate: Transferred to USSR, 16 July 1944
Notes: Transferred to Canada October 1942; returned to United Kingdom December 1943 or January 1944
Canada
Name: Leamington
Acquired: October 1942
Honours and
awards:
Arctic 1942, Atlantic 1944-45
Fate: Returned to United Kingdom, December 1943 or January 1944
Soviet Union
Name: Zhguchi (Fiery)
Acquired: 16 July 1944
Fate: Returned to UK, 1950 and scrapped, on 26 July 1951
General characteristics
Class and type: Wickes-class destroyer
Displacement: 1,306 long tons (1,327 t)
Length: 314 ft 4 in (95.81 m)
Beam: 30 ft 11 in (9.42 m)
Draft: 9 ft 9 in (2.97 m)
Propulsion:
Speed: 35 kn (40 mph; 65 km/h)
Complement: 122 officers and enlisted
Armament:
  • 4 × 4 in (100 mm) guns
  • 2 × 3 in (76 mm) guns
  • 12 × 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes

The first USS Twiggs (DD–127) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was named for Major Levi Twiggs. She was later transferred to the Royal Navy, as HMS Leamington and to the Soviet Navy as Zhguchi, before returning to Britain to star in the film The Gift Horse, which depicts the St. Nazaire Raid.

Twiggs was laid down on 23 January 1918 at Camden, New Jersey, by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation. The ship was launched on 28 September 1918; sponsored by Miss Lillie S. Getchell, the granddaughter of Major Twiggs. Twiggs was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 28 July 1919, Commander Isaac C. Johnson, Jr., in command.

Following shakedown, the destroyer joined Destroyer Division 16 (DesDiv 16), Destroyer Squadron 4 (Desron 4), Pacific Fleet, late in October 1919 and operated out of San Diego, California, on training cruises through the spring of 1922. While performing this duty, Twiggs was classified DD-127 on 17 July 1920 during the Navy-wide assignment of alphanumeric hull numbers. A combination of factors—increased operating costs, manpower shortages, and the general anti-military climate which followed World War I—resulted in a reduction of the Navy's active Fleet. Accordingly, Twiggs was decommissioned at San Diego on 24 June 1922.


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