Allied Warships

USS Lardner (DD 487)

Destroyer of the Bristol class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassBristol 
PennantDD 487 
Built byFederal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down15 Sep 1941 
Launched20 Mar 1942 
Commissioned13 May 1942 
End service16 May 1946 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 16 May 1946.
Stricken 15 August 1949.
Transferred to Turkey on 10 June 1949 being renamed Gemlik. Gemlik was stricken in 1974.
Sunk as a target on 21 November 1982 in the Eastern Mediterranean.

 

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1Lt.Cdr. Willard Merton Sweetser, USN13 May 194216 Jun 1943

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