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| HMS Claverhouse |
Dates: 1918 - 1647 Type Destroyer Class Admiralty Leader Pennant D 70 Built by Cammell Laird Shipyard (Birkenhead, U.K.) Ordered Apr, 1917 Laid down 5 Mar, 1918 Launched 21 Dec, 1918 Commissioned 19 May, 1919 Renamed HMS Mackay Mackay was coverted into a long-range escort at the outbreak f WWI with a reduced gun armament but carrying a complement of 50 DCs. In May 1940 she took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk, in 2/1941 was with Capt Pizeys Division when it attempted attacking Scharnhorst & Gneisenau as they returned to Germany via the Channel but failed to get in range. Spent a short time escorting Russian convoy then switched to the East coast where she remained until the Normandy invasion. On 6/6/44 she was escorting one of the invasion convoys. Sold to be broken up for scrap on 18 February 1947.
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18 people in our World War 2 records 
37 people in our Forces Reunited records
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