Stephen Beattie
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Captain Stephen Halden Beattie VC was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwe
Stephen Halden Beattie
HMS Campbeltown (I42)
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HMS Campbeltown was a Town-class destroyer of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She was originally US destroyer USS Buchanan, and was one of 50 obsolescent US Navy destroyers transferred to
Stephen Beattie
…He joined the Royal Navy in 1925 as a Special Entry Cadet. Then-Lieutenant-Commander Beattie, a 33-year-old in command of the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Campbeltown, the tactical lynchpin of the St Nazaire Raid in 1942, was awarded the VC, recognized as being: For great gallantry and determination in the attack on…
The newly transferred HMS Campbeltown (right) alongside her sister HMS Castleton
Starboard side view of Campbeltown as USS Buchanan in 1936
Dutch sailors on HNLMS Campbeltown.
HMS Campbeltown being converted