HMS Eglinton (L87)/ F87

Casualty List

Navy: Royal Navy
Type: Escort Destroyer
Class: Hunt (Type I) 
Pennant: L 87 / F87
Built by: Vickers Armstrong (Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K.): Parsons 
Laid down: 8 Jun, 1939 
Launched: 28 Dec, 1939 
Commissioned: 28 Aug, 1940 
History: Scrapped at Blythe on 28 May 1956.
  Named after a Hunt in Ayrshire, Scotland.
First ship of with this name in the Royal Navy.

Battle Honours:
Atlantic 1940
English Channel 1940-1944
North Sea 1941-44
Normandy 1944 

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