- Service history
- Greek service
- References
- Publications
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}}{{Use British English|date=November 2016}}{{Infobox ship image| Ship image = | Ship caption = HMS Lauderdale at Algiers Harbour decorated with a 'V', c. 1943
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | Ship country = United Kingdom | UK|naval}} | Ship name = HMS Lauderdale | Ship owner = | Ship namesake = | Ship ordered = 4 September 1939 | Ship builder = John Isaac Thornycroft | Ship laid down = 12 December 1939 | Ship launched = 5 August 1941 | Ship acquired = | Ship commissioned = August 1942 | Ship decommissioned = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = Loaned to the Royal Hellenic Navy in 1946 | Ship struck = | Ship reinstated = | Ship identification = pennant number: L95 | Ship honours =*Atlantic 1942- North Sea 1942
- Sicily 1943
- Mediterranean 1943
- South France 1944
- Adriatic 1944
| Ship badge = On a Field Red two antlers, suspended from the tines a bugle horn, stringed Gold. | Ship fate = Scrapped in Greece 1960 | Ship status = | Ship notes =
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header =title | Ship country = Greece | Greece|royalnavy}} | Ship name = Aigaion | Ship owner = | Ship namesake = Aegean Sea | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = | Ship acquired = | Ship commissioned = | Ship decommissioned = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship struck = | Ship reinstated = | Ship honours = | Ship identification = pennant number: | Ship fate = Returned to the Royal Navy December 1959 | Ship status = | Ship notes =
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Hunt|destroyer}} | 1050|LT|t}} standard- {{convert|1435|LT|t}} full load
| 85.3|m|ftin|abbr=on}} o/a | 10.16|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | 3.51|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship propulsion=*2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers- 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19,000 shp
| 27|kn|mph km/h|lk=in}}- {{convert|25.5|kn|mph km/h|abbr=on}} full
| 2350|nmi|km|abbr=on|lk=in}} at {{convert|20|kn|km/h|abbr=on}} | Ship endurance= | Ship boats= | Ship complement=168 | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=*4 × QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX- 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII on quad mount MK.VII
- 2 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III
- 2 × {{convert|21|in|mm|0|abbr=on}} torpedo tubes
- 110 depth charges, 4 throwers, 3 racks
| Ship armour = | Ship notes =
}} | HMS Lauderdale was a {{sclass2-|Hunt|destroyer|0}} destroyer of the Royal Navy. Ships of this class were designed as cheap, easily built vessels for convoy escort and antisubmarine duties. She was named like her sisters after a fox hunt, in her case one in Berwickshire. War bonds were issued to finance the building of warships. During Warship Week held in 1942 the civil community of Berwickshire adopted the ship. She has been the only Royal Navy warship to carry this name. Service historyOn commissioning she was allocated for duty in the Western Approaches and crossed the Atlantic to Canada for trials - the only Hunt Class vessel to make the crossing.[1] At the end of March 1942 she returned to Londonderry and undertook North Sea convoy escort duty for the rest of the year. In 1943 she was allocated for service in the Mediterranean, including support of the allied landings on Sicily in July of that year. In 1944 she continued operations in the Mediterranean and was allocated to support the landings in the South of France. She ended the year in the Adriatic Sea supporting operations there. In 1945 Lauderdale was allocated for service in the Far East and underwent a refit at Simonstown, South Africa.[2] Greek service{{other ships|Greek ship Aigaion}}In 1946 she was transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy and renamed Aigaion. She was removed from the effective list and returned to British ownership on 12 December 1959 and scrapped in Greece in 1960.[3] References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-10DE-HMS_Lauderdale.htm|title=HMS Lauderdale (L 95) - Type 2, Hunt-class Escort Destroyer |publisher=naval-history.net |date=2004 |last=Mason |first=Geoffrey B. |editor=Gordon Smith |accessdate=25 November 2015}}
2. ^Critchley, Mike, "British Warships Since 1945: Part 3: Destroyers", Maritime Books: Liskeard, UK, 1982. {{ISBN|0-9506323-9-2}}, page 36
3. ^{{cite book|editor=Raymond V B Blackman |title=Jane's Fighting Ships 1963-4, |publisher=Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd |location=London |page=112}}
Publications- {{colledge}}
- English, John (1987). The Hunts: a history of the design, development and careers of the 86 destroyers of this class built for the Royal and Allied Navies during World War II. England: World Ship Society. {{ISBN|0-905617-44-4}}.
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