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Navy	The Royal Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Town
Pennant	G 60
Built by	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., (Squantum, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	23 Sep, 1918
Launched	24 May, 1919
Commissioned	26 Nov, 1940
End service	Jul, 1947
Loss position

History	USS Meade was designated one of the 50 destroyers to be transferred to the United Kingdom. She decommissioned and was turned over to the British 23 November 1940. Renamed HMS Ramsey she served the Royal Navy in the North Atlantic and later performed valuable duty as an aircraft training ship. She completed her service 30 June 1945 and was scrapped in July 1947 at Bo'ness, England. Commanding Officers: Cdr. Peter Garnett Agnew, RN (retired) 26 November 1941 – 4 March 1941 Lt.Cdr. Richard Been Stannard, VC, RNR 4 March 1941 – 16 November 1942 Lt.Cdr. Reginald Cyril Stevens Woolley, RNR 16 November 1942 – 28 December 1942 A/Lt.Cdr. Wilfred Lambert, RNVR 28 December 1942 – 12 June 1943 T/A/Lt.Cdr. George David Davies, DSC, RNR 12 June 1943 – June 1944 Lt. Ralph Alexander St.Clair Sproul-Boulton, RN June 1944 – March 1945 T/Lt. John Edmund Barris, RNVR March 1945 – still in command in July 1945 according to the Navy List HMS Ramsey is not listed in the October 1945 Navy List
Former name	USS Meade (DD 274)

HMS Ramsey (G 60)