HNoMS St Albans

Survived

United States Navy, then Royal Navy, then Royal Norwegian Navy

Type	Destroyer
Class	Town
War	Second World War
Main guns	4 × 4″ guns

Service

to 1940	Thomas	USA
1940–1941	St Albans Destroyers for Bases	Britain
1941–1944	St Albans Lent to the Royal Norwegian Navy	Norway
from 1944	St Albans	Britain

American four-stacker given to Britain in 1940 as HMS St Albans and manned by Norwegians from 1941 to 1944. Escorted Atlantic and Arctic convoys; with Seagull she sank the Polish submarine Jastrząb in error off Norway in May 1942. Lent to the Soviet Union in 1944 as Dostoyny.

American Wickes class destroyer USS Thomas (DD-182). She was transferred in 1940 to the Royal Navy as HMS St Albans (I15), as a Town class destroyer, but spent most of the war in the exiled Norwegian navy as HNoMS St Albans, before transfer to the Soviet Navy as Dostoyny. Photo: Photographer not identified., Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

Initial
4 × 4 in (102 mm)/50 guns
1 x 3 in (76 mm)/23 gun
12 x 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
1941–44
3 × 4 in (102 mm) guns
2 x 3 in (76 mm) guns
4 DC throwers

Builder	Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Laid down	23 March 1918
Launched	4 July 1918
Commissioned	25 April 1919
Displacement	1,213 tons
Length	314 ft 4+1⁄2 in (95.822 m)
Speed	35 knots (65 km/h)
Complement	101 officers and enlisted

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched as USS Thomas

4 July 1918

Renamed HMS St Albans

Britain

September 1940 · Destroyers for Bases

Joined the Royal Norwegian Navy

1941 · Lent to the Royal Norwegian Navy

Sinking of Jastrząb

Survived

2 May 1942

Norwegian-manned

Joined the Royal Navy

1944

Fate

Survived

Transferred to UK for scrapping, 28 February 1949