Allied Warships

HMS Ramsey (G 60)

Destroyer of the Town class

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
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.
Former name	USS Meade (DD 274)

Commands listed for HMS Ramsey (G 60)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Cdr. (retired) Sir Peter Garnett Agnew, RN	26 Nov 1940	4 Mar 1941
2	Lt.Cdr. Richard Been Stannard, VC, RNR	4 Mar 1941	16 Nov 1942
3	Lt.Cdr. Reginald Cyril Stevens Woolley, RNR	16 Nov 1942	28 Dec 1942
4	A/Lt.Cdr. Wilfred Lambert, RNVR	28 Dec 1942	12 Jun 1943
5	T/A/Lt.Cdr. George David Davies, DSC, RNR	12 Jun 1943	Jun 1944
6	Lt. Ralph Alexander St.Clair Sproul-Bolton, RN	Jun 1944	Mar 1945
7	T/A/Lt.Cdr. John Edmund Barris, RNVR	Mar 1945	mid 1945

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Notable events involving Ramsey include:

2 Dec 1944
HMS Sibyl (Lt. H.R. Murray, RN) conducted A/S and attack exercises in the Clyde area with HMS Ramsey (Lt. R.A.S. Sproul-Bolton, RN) and HMS Wells (A/Lt.Cdr. C.A.H. Owen, DSC, RN). (1)