USS Twiggs (DD-127)

HMS Leamington, ex-Twiggs
History
United States
Name	USS Twiggs
Namesake	Levi Twiggs
Builder	New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey
Laid down	23 January 1918
Launched	28 September 1918
Commissioned	28 July 1919 to
Decommissioned	24 June 1922
Recommissioned	20 February 1930
Decommissioned	6 April 1937
Recommissioned	30 September 1939
Decommissioned	23 October 1940
Stricken	8 January 1941
Identification	DD-127
Fate	Transferred to UK, 23 October 1940
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Leamington
Acquired	23 October 1940
Identification	Pennant number: G19
Fate	Transferred to USSR, 16 July 1944
Notes	Transferred to Canada October 1942; returned to United Kingdom December 1943 or January 1944
Canada
Name	Leamington
Acquired	October 1942
Honours and awards	Arctic 1942, Atlantic 1944-45
Fate	Returned to United Kingdom, December 1943 or January 1944
Soviet Union
Name	Zhguchy (Жгучий / Fiery)
Acquired	16 July 1944
Fate	Returned to UK, 1950 and scrapped, on 26 July 1951
General characteristics
Class and type	Wickes-class destroyer
Displacement	1,306 long tons (1,327 t)
Length	314 ft 4 in (95.81 m)
Beam	30 ft 11 in (9.42 m)
Draft	9 ft 9 in (2.97 m)
Propulsion	2 × steam turbines 2 × shafts
Speed	35 kn (40 mph; 65 km/h)
Complement	122 officers and enlisted
Armament	4 × 4 in (100 mm) guns 2 × 3 in (76 mm) guns 12 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

The first USS Twiggs (DD–127) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was named for Major Levi Twiggs. She was later transferred to the Royal Navy, as HMS Leamington and to the Soviet Navy as Zhguchy, before returning to Britain to star in the film The Gift Horse, which depicts the St. Nazaire Raid.