| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Class | Town |
| Pennant | I 21 |
| Built by | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. (Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 5 Apr 1918 |
| Launched | 4 Jul 1918 |
| Commissioned | 23 Sep 1940 |
| End service | Dec 1944 |
| Loss position | |
| History | After completion USS Abbot cruised along the Atlantic coast, in the Gulf of Mexico, and in Cuban waters until going out of commission 5 July 1922 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Recommissioned 17 June 1940, USS Abbot patrolled along the east coast for a brief time. She was decommissioned at Hailifax, Nova Scotia, 23 September 1940, and was transferred in the destroyer-land bases exchange to the British who renamed her HMS Charlestown. HMS Charlestown. joined the 17th Destroyer Division and took part in minelaying operations from the west coast of, Scotland. Between assignments of' minelaying duty she assisted in the escort of convoys. Damaged in collision with the steamer Florizell off Harwich, England, during December 1944, she was reduced to reserve at Grangemouth, Scotland, and paid off from 15 January 1945. She was finally sold for scrap on 4 March 1947 at Sunderland. HMS Charlestown is not listed as active unit in the April 1945 Navy List |
| Former name | USS Abbot (DD 184) |
Commands listed for HMS Charlestown (I 21)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | Lt.Cdr. Thomas Johnston, RN | 23 Sep 1940 | 3 Mar 1942 |
| 2 | Lt.Cdr. Norman Robins Murch, RN | 3 Mar 1942 | 1 Feb 1943 |
| 3 | Lt. William Frank Broughton Webb, DSC, RN | 1 Feb 1943 | 23 Sep 1943 |
| 4 | Lt.Cdr. Alfred Francis Colenso Gray, RD, RNR | 23 Sep 1943 | Jan 1945 ? |
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