HMS Atherstone (L05)

Casualty List

Navy: Royal Navy
Type: Escort destroyer
Class: Hunt (Type I) 
Pennant: L 05 
Built by: Cammell Laird Shipyard (Birkenhead, U.K.) 
Laid down: 8 Jun, 1939 
Launched: 12 Dec, 1939 
Commissioned: 23 Mar, 1940 
End service: Sold to be broken up for scrap on 23 November 1957.
History: Scrapped at post Glasgow on 25 November 1957.
  Battle Honours;
English Channel 1940 – 1942
St Nazaire 1942
North Sea 1942 – 1943
Atlantic 1943
Sicily 1943
Salerno 1943
Mediterranean 1943
South of France 1944
Adriatic 1944 

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