Blackwood K 313

BLACKWOOD (DE-4/K-313)

Named for Captain the Honorable Henry Blackwood (Trafalgar 1805)

Type: GMT
Builder: BNY
Keel laid 09/22/42
Launched 11/23/42
Commissioned 03/27/43
First CO: Cdr E. Chavasse, RN
Unit of 3rd, 4th EGs
Assisted in sinking two U-boats
Sunk 06/16/44

From the research of Anne McCarthy,
with contributions by Pat Perrella and Pat Stephens, webmaster. March 2006