HMS Newport (G54)

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USS DD81 prior to being named HMS Newport G54

Navy: RN
Type: Destroyer
Class: Town 
Pennant: G 54 
Built by: Fore River Shipbuilding Co. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Laid down: 25 Aug, 1917 
Launched: 16 Dec, 1917 
Commissioned: 26 Nov, 1940 
End service: Jan, 1945 
History: from March 1942 to June 1942 loaned to Royal Norwegian Navy as HNoMS Newport (G 54)
In 1944 used as aircraft target.
decommissioned in January 1945 and sold for scrap on 18 Feb, 1947 at Granton. 
Former name: USS Sigourney (DD 81)

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