HMS Leamington

HMS Leamington

HMS "Leamigton" has been the name of 2 Royal Navy vessels:

* "Leamington" was a Hunt class minesweeper (1916) launched in 1918 and sold in 1928
* "Leamington" (G19) was a "Wickes"-class destroyer USS "Twiggs" (DD-127) transferred to the Royal Navy under the Destroyers for Bases Agreement in 1940. It was transferred from the Royal Navy to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1942, and returned to the Royal Navy in 1950 and scrapped the following year.


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