Name HMS Eglinton Yard number Admiralty Job No.J4091 Completed 28 August 1940 Construction started 8 June 1939 Length 85 m Builder Vickers-Armstrongs | Ordered 21 March 1939 Laid down 8 June 1939 Identification pennant number L87 Launched 28 December 1939 Draft 3.27 m | |
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HMS Eglinton (L87) was a Type I Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy built by Vickers-Armstrongs on the River Tyne, and launched on 28 December 1939. She was adopted by the town of Alton, Hampshire, as part of the Warship Week campaign in 1942.
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Service history
Eglinton served with the 16th Destroyer Flotilla at Harwich for the whole of her wartime service. She was involved in two actions with German S-Boats whilst escorting East coast convoys. She also was part of the support force for the Normandy landings.
After August 1945 she was decommissioned and placed in reserve at Harwich. On 24 June 1955 she was designated as a trials ship for exercise 'Sleeping Beauty' designed to test the state of ships held in reserve, and the time taken to bring them forward for service in the active fleet. She was sold for scrapping and arrived for scrapping at Blyth by Hughes Bolckow on 28 May 1956.