USS Arrow (H-42) and SS Fort LaMontee-- Part 1: A Class Destroyer

From Wikipedia   U-boat net

In the last post on the USS Vulcan, I wrote that that ship rescued sailors off the ammunition ship Arrow in the Mediterranean Sea in August 1943.  It turns out that the Arrow was not an ammunition ship, but a British destroyer that had been severely damaged by the explosion of the ammunition ship SS Fort LaMontee.  So much damaged that it was ruled a wreck.

The Arrow was a British A Class destroyer.  A Class destroyers all had names beginning with the letter A except the first one, the Codrington.  There were nine of them altogether and five did not survive the war.  There were also two Royal Canadian A Class destroyers.  One survived the war and the other was wrecked.

The Arrow was commissioned in  14 April 1930.  (323 feet long, 32.3 foot beam, 134 crew,  four 4.7-inch guns, two AA guns, torpedoes and depth charges.)

--GreGen