Type:

Destroyer

Class:

Town 

Pennant:

H 82 

Built by:

Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 

Laid down:

3 Dec, 1918 

Launched:

11 Apr, 1919 

Commissioned:

9 Oct, 1940 

End service:

Dec, 1948 

Renamed HMS Burnham, the destroyer began escort duties with the British Navy in December 1940. In early 1941 Burnham began a series of escort voyages between Iceland and Newfoundland. Throughout 1942 and 1943, Burnham worked mainly between Newfoundland and Londonderry, Northern Ireland. In 1944, she was used on aircraft training duties in the Western Approaches Command. Burnham was reduced to reserve at Milford Haven, Wales, in November 1944. She was ultimately scrapped at Pembroke, England, in December 1948.  

(Ex-DD-258 USS Aulick) below