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USS Bernadou (DD 153)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassWickes 
PennantDD 153 
Built byWilliam Cramp and Sons (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down4 Jun, 1918 
Launched7 Nov, 1918 
Commissioned19 May, 1919 
End service17 Jul, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned 21 July 1922
Recommissioned 1 May 1930
DeCommissioned in September 1936
Recommissioned in October 1939
Decommissioned 17 July 1945
Sold for scrap 30 November 1945. 

Noteable events involving Bernadou include:

5 Feb, 1942
USS Bernadou picks up 10 survivors from the Belgian merchant Gandia that was torpedoed and sunk on 22 January 1942 by the German submarine U-135 about 420 nautical miles east of Cape Race in position 45º00'N, 41º00'W.

27 Aug, 1942
USS Bernadou picks up survivors from the American passenger ship Chatham that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-517 in the Belle Isle Strait in position 51º53'N, 55º48'W.


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