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HMS Georgetown (I 40)

Destroyer of the Town class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassTown 
PennantI 40 
Built byFore River Shipbuilding Co. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down20 Jul, 1918 
Launched27 Oct, 1918 
Commissioned23 Sep, 1940 
End serviceAug, 1944 
Loss position
 
HistoryHMS Georgetown participated in operation "Bowery", escorting the American aircraft carrier USS Wasp in May 1942 on her second reinforcement of the spitfire strength on the island of Malta. In September 1942, she transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy tor convoy escort duties in the western Atlantic. returned, to the United Kingdom in December 1943, she Joined the Reserve Fleet and in August 1944 was turned over to the Soviet Navy.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Arthur Geoffey Poe, RN
23 September 1940 – 2 March 1941

Lt. Archibald John Ramsay White, RN
2 March 1941 - ???

HMS Georgetown in Dockyard Control during refit

Lt.Cdr. Peter Graeme MacIver, RNR
9 February 1942 – 7 July 1943
RD awarded on 11 August 1942
DSO awarded on 21 August 1942

Lt.Cdr. John Parker Stewart, DSC, RNR
7 July 1943 – ca. late 1943 / early 1944

T/A/Lt. A Bryden-Brown, RNVR
ca. late 1943 / early 1944 - August 1944 

Former nameUSS Maddox (DD 168)
Career notesto Soviet Union as USSR Zostkij

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