| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Class | Town |
| Pennant | H 81 |
| Built by | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. (Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 10 Jul, 1918 |
| Launched | 8 Mar, 1919 |
| Commissioned | 9 Oct, 1940 |
| Lost | 18 Oct, 1941 |
| Loss position | 57.01N, 19.08W (See a map) |
| History | On 15 October 1940 HMS Broadwater departed Halifax for the British Isles, via St. John's, Newfoundland, arriving in the Clyde River, Scotland, the 26th for service with the 11th Escort Group, Western Approaches Command. During the early part of 1941 the indispensable destroyer escorted convoys, carrying troops and military supplies, around the Cape of Good Hope to the Middle East. She spent May and June at Southampton, England.
Assigned to the Newfoundland Escort Force in July, the ship patrolled the North Atlantic and guarded convoys against the German submarine wolfpacks into the fall of that year. Early in the morning of 17 October she attacked a U-boat, one of a pack assaulting the convoy SC-48 some 400 miles south of Iceland. Twenty four hours later HMS Broadwater (Lt.Cdr. William Maurice Lloyd Astwood, RN) herself fell victim to torpedoes of U-101 and sank at 1340hours the same day in position 57º01'N, 19º08'W. Commanding Officer: Lt.Cdr. William Maurice Lloyd Astwood, RN Hit by U-boat |
| Former name | USS Mason (DD 191) |
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