HMS Veteran

Navy:	Royal Navy
Type:	Destroyer
Class:	Admiralty V & W
Pennant:	D 72
Mod:	Short range escort
Built by:	John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland)
Laid down:	30 Aug, 1918
Launched:	26 Aug, 1919
Commissioned:	13 Nov, 1919
Complement:	134
Lost:	27 Sep, 1942 (Lt. Cdr T. H. Garwood, RN.) (c 54.34'N, 25.44'W) torpedoed and sunk by 1 torpedo from German U-404 (Bülow). Escorting convoy RB.1 from Newfoundland to UK (Battle of the Atlantic) They consisted of a collection of coastal steamers/ferries operating on the Rivers and around the Chesapeake Bay area (President Warfield) and the two overnight boats Boston and New York

History:	On 27 September 1942 was escorting convoy RB-1. When torpedoed she was rescuing survivors of the American passenger ship New York. She was lost with all hands together with rescued survivors from the American passenger ship Boston and merchant ship SS Yorktown. The convoy was attacked by three wolf packs totalling 17 U-boats. 11 Sep, 1941 The German submarine U-207 was sunk in the Straits of Denmark south-east of Angmassalik, Greenland, in position 63.59N, 34.48W, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Leamington and HMS Veteran. 3 Jul, 1942 Took over the attack on U-215 from the British ASW Trawler HMS Le Tigre with depth charges and Hedgehog. U-215 was sunk but credited to Le Tigre. *Commanding Officers:* HMS Veteran was in Dockyard Control during refit at the start of the 2nd World War Cdr. John Egerton Broome, RN 11 October 1939 – 4 December 1940 Cdr. Walter Thomas Couchman, RN 4 December 1940 – 6 July 1941 OBE 31 December 1940 Cdr. William Edward James Eames, RN 6 July 1941 - ??? DSC awarded on 23 January 1942 Lt.Cdr Trevor Henry Garwood, RN ??? - 26 September 1942+ Promoted to Lt.Cdr. on 16 August 1942 Hit by U-boat Sunk on 26 Sep, 1942 by U-404 (Bülow).