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Allied Warships

USS Benson (DD 421)

Destroyer of the Benson / Gleaves class


USS Benson during the war

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassBenson / Gleaves 
PennantDD 421 
Built byBethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down26 May, 1939 
Launched15 Nov, 1939 
Commissioned25 Jul, 1940 
End service18 Mar, 1946 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned 18 March 1946.
Transferred to Taiwan 25 February 1954 and renamed Lo Yang.
Lo Yang was stricken 1 November 1974 and broken up for scrap in 1975.  

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