St Nazaire Raid
Twenty-three "Wickes"-class destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy, along with four to the Royal Canadian Navy, in 1940 under the Destroyers for Bases Agreement. Most of these ships were refitted much like the U.S. destroyers and used as convoy escorts, but some were used very little and were not considered worth refitting. , renamed , was disguised as a German vessel and expended as a blockship in the St Nazaire Raid. (A newer that was involved in the Japanese surrender formalities was a later ship.) One further destroyer was sunk; the remainder were scrapped between 1944 and 1947.