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Default Re: 50 destroyers for bases deal

I would like to know too.

Forty-three initially went to the Royal Navy and seven to the Royal Canadian Navy. In the Commonwealth navies the ships were named after towns, and were therefore known as the Town class, although they had originally belonged to three ship classes (the Caldwell, Wickes , and Clemson classes). Before the end of the war, nine others served with the RCN.
Five of the Town class destroyers were manned by crews of the Royal Norwegian Navy, with the survivors later returned to the RN. HMS Campbeltown was crewed by Royal Netherlands Navy before her assignment to carry commandos on the St. Nazaire Raid. Nine others were transferred to the Soviet Navy.
Six of the 50 were lost when torpedoed by U-boats and three others, including Campbeltown, were lost in other circumstances.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroy...ases_Agreement
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