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sister-ship USS Fairfax 1918 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Campbelltown (ex-Campbelltown, ex-Buchanan)	I42	78	Bath Iron Wks, USA	6/1918	2.1.1919	1/1919 // 1.1941	to United Kingdom 10.1941 (Campbelltown)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1090
Displacement full, t	1360
Length, m	94.5 wl 95.8 oa
Breadth, m	9.40
Draught, m	2.80
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 4 Normand boilers
Power, h. p.	26000
Max speed, kts	35
Fuel, t	oil 275
Endurance, nm(kts)	4300(14)
Armament	3 x 1 - 102/50 Mk 9, 1 x 1 - 76/45 20cwt QF Mk I/II/III/IV, 3 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (60)
Electronic equipment	type 141 sonar
Complement	146

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Project history

Ex-USS DD131 Buchanan: one of 50 American "flushdeckers", transferred to the Great Britain in 1940 in exchange for bases in Western hemisphere, commissioned by RN 9.9.1940 as Campbeltown. 17.1.1941 Campbelltown was transferred to Dutch Navy under the same name.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Campbelltown  15.10.1941 she was returned to RN and 28.3.1942 blown up during St-Nazaire raid.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.