Talk:Samuel B. Roberts/@comment-49.144.137.63-20180424072119/@comment-49.144.137.63-20180424095348

Buchanan was traded to the Brits as part of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement, after which she was renamed Campbeltown.

In 1942 she took out the infamous St. Nazaire drydock, the largest drydock that could've kept the Biscuits in operation so close to the Home Islands. She accomplished this by being stripped down to the bare essentials and packed to the tits with explosives. Half of her embarked complement was lost or captured, but the mission was accomplished and St. Nazaire was never used again in the war.

Imagine Campbeltown having the personality of John Mallory from A Fistful of Dynamite, and you've got Campbeltown.