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=== In foreign navies === Twenty-three ''Wickes''-class destroyers were transferred to the [[Royal Navy]], and four to the [[Royal Canadian Navy]], in 1940 under the [[Destroyers-for-bases deal]]. Together with ships from the ''Caldwell'' and ''Clemson'' classes they were grouped as '[[Town-class destroyer|Town-class destroyers]]'; divided into the Bath Iron Works design as "Type B" and the Bethlehem Steel as "Type C" Most of these ships were refitted much like the U.S. destroyers and used as convoy escorts, but some were used very little and were not considered worth refitting. {{USS|Buchanan|DD-131|2}}, renamed {{HMS|Campbeltown|I42|6}}, was disguised as a German vessel and expended as a blockship in the [[St Nazaire Raid]]. (A newer {{USS|Buchanan|DD-484|2}} that was involved in the Japanese surrender formalities was a later ship.) One further destroyer was sunk; the remainder were scrapped between 1944 and 1947. In 1944 seven were transferred by Britain to the [[Soviet Navy]], in place of [[Italy|Italian]] ships claimed by the [[USSR]] after Italy's surrender. These vessels all survived the war, and were scrapped between 1949 and 1952.<ref name="SilverstoneI"/>
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