HMS Blackwood (K.313) Building and Operational Data:
01 November 1941: Contract awarded
22 September 1942: Keel laid by the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Mass.
23 November 194: Launched
27 March 1943: Transferred to Great Britain as Lend-Lease, named HMS Blackwood (K.313)
15 June 1944: Torpedoed by U-764 south of Portland Bill, England
16 June 1944: Foundered while under tow and sank
13 November 1944: Struck from the NVR
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