HMS Rockwood (L39)

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Navy: Royal Navy
Type: Escort destroyer
Class: Hunt (Type III) 
Pennant: L 39 
Built by: Vickers Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.) 
Laid down: 29 Aug, 1941 
Launched: 13 Jun, 1942 
Commissioned: 4 Nov, 1942 
Complement: 168
End service: 11 Nov, 1943 Heavily damaged by a German Hs.293.glider bomb from a Do.217 aircraft, in the Aegean Sea After attack on Kalymnos Island. Declared a constructive total loss, not repaired, scrapped at Gateshead in August 1946. 

Commanding Officer:
Lt. Samuel Richard le Hunte Lombard-Hobson, RN
11 August 1942 > 

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