HMS Campbeltown

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Campbeltown, after Campbeltown in Scotland, with a third announced:


 * HMS Campbeltown (I42) was a Town-class destroyer, formerly the Wickes-class destroyer USS Buchanan (DD-131) of the United States Navy. She was transferred to the Royal Navy as part of the 1940 Destroyers for Bases Agreement and was expended in the St Nazaire Raid in 1942.
 * HMS Campbeltown (F86) was a Type 22 frigate launched in 1987, decommissioned in 2011 and scrapped in 2013.
 * HMS Campbeltown (Type 31 frigate) will be a Type 31 frigate.

Battle Honours

 * Atlantic 1941–42
 * St Nazaire 1942