HMS Cotswold (L54)

Casualty List

Navy:

Royal Navy

Type:

Destroyer

Class:

Hunt (Type I) 

Pennant:

L 54 

Built by:

Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd. (Scotstoun, Scotland) 

Laid down:

10 Oct, 1939 

Launched:

18 Jul, 1940 

Commissioned:

16 Nov, 1940 

History:

Used as a breakwater at Harwich, England in 1956 before being scrapped.
Scrapped at Grays on 11 September 1957.

Was second R.N. ship of the name.
Named after 2 'Hunts' in Gloucestershire, England.

Battle Honours
North Sea 1941 - 1945
English Channel 1943
Normandy 1944 

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