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HMS Rockwood (L 39)

Escort destroyer of the Hunt (Type III) class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeEscort destroyer
ClassHunt (Type III) 
PennantL 39 
Built byVickers Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down29 Aug, 1941 
Launched13 Jun, 1942 
Commissioned4 Nov, 1942 
End service11 Nov, 1943 
Loss position
 
History

HMS Rockwood (Lt. Samuel Richard le Hunte Lombard-Hobson, RN) was heavily damaged by a German glyder bomb in the Aegean Sea 11 November 1943 in position 36º25'N, 26º52'E. Declared a constructive total loss, not repared, scrapped at Gateshead in August 1946.

Commanding Officer:
Lt. Samuel Richard le Hunte Lombard-Hobson, RN
11 August 1942 > 

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