USS Buchanan (DD-131)
USS Buchanan off Balboa, Panama, 18 May 1936
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Buchanan (DD-131) |
| Namesake: | Franklin Buchanan |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down: | 29 June 1918 |
| Launched: | 2 January 1919 |
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| Struck: | 8 January 1941 |
| Fate: | Transferred to UK, 9 September 1940 |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Campbeltown (I42) |
| Commissioned: | 9 September 1940 |
| Fate: | Expended as demolition ship during St. Nazaire Raid. Destroyed 29 March 1942. |
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| Class and type: | Wickes class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,260 tons |
| Length: | 314 feet, 4 inches (95.81 m) |
| Beam: | 30 feet, 6 inches (9.30 m) |
| Draft: | 9 feet (2.74 m) (light) 12 feet (3.66 m) (full load) |
| Propulsion: | 4 Normand Return-flame Boilers, Brown-Curtis single reduction geared turbines, 30,000 shp, 2 shafts. |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
| Complement: | 158 officers and enlisted |
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USS Buchanan (DD-131), named for Franklin Buchanan, was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy.
Buchanan was transferred to the United Kingdom under the Destroyers for Bases Agreement in 1940 and served as HMS Campbeltown (I42). She was destroyed during the St. Nazaire Raid: at 1:34 on 28 March 1942, loaded with four tons of amatol explosive, the ship rammed the gates of the Forme Ecluse Louis Joubert dry dock. The ship exploded the following morning, ending the use of the dock for the rest of the war.
The first USS Buchanan (DD-131) was launched on 2 January 1919 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; sponsored by Mrs. Charles P. Wetherbee. The ship was commissioned 20 January 1919 with Lieutenant H. H. J. Bensen in command. Buchanan reported to Commander, Destroyer Force, at Guantanamo, Cuba, and was temporarily attached to Destroyer Squadron 2 until ordered to the Pacific Fleet in July 1919 for duty with Destroyer Flotilla 4. From 7 June 1922 until 10 April 1930 Buchanan was out of commission at San Diego. She then joined Destroyer Division 10, Destroyer Squadrons, Battle Force, and operated on the West Coast in routine division, force, and fleet activities and problems. It was for this short period that she was commanded by Theodore E. Chandler, who would later become an admiral during World War II, and was killed in action in the South Pacific in January, 1945. In the summer of 1934, after making a cruise to Alaska with ROTC units aboard, she was placed in reduced commission attached to Rotating Reserve Destroyer Squadron 20 at San Diego.
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