Dates: 1940 - 1952

Ex USS MADDOX (Type C - ANNAPOLIS Class) built by Bethlehem Steel Fore River. The ship was launched on 27th October 1918 and completed on 10th March 1919. She was transferred to the RN under the US/UK Lend Lease Agreement on 23rd September 1940. On commissioning she was named HMS MADDOX as the names to be used by this Class of destroyers had not been announced.. The ship was later renamed HMS GEORGETOWN which is a name cannon to a town in USA and the capital of the then British Guiana. In March 1942 following a successful "WARSHIP WEEK" National Savings campaign in May 1942 this ship was ’adopted’ by the civil community of Battle, East Sussex.

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