Allied Warships

USS Breese (DM 22)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassWickes 
PennantDM 22 
Built byNewport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. (Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down10 Nov 1917 
Launched11 May 1918 
Commissioned23 Oct 1918 
End service15 Jan 1946 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned on 17 June 1922.
Reclassified as Light Minelayer DM-18 on 5 January 1931.
Recommissioned as DM-18 on 1 June 1931.
Decommissioned on 12 November 1937.
Recommissioned on 25 September 1939.
Decommissioned on 15 January 1946.
Stricken on 7 February 1946.
Sold to be broken up for scrap on 16 May 1946.

 

Commands listed for USS Breese (DM 22)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt.Cdr. William Jenkins Longfellow, USN1940???

2Lt.Cdr. Herald Franklin Stout, USN1941???

3Cdr. Donald Noble Clay, USNFeb 1944Feb 1945

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Media links


Destroyers of World War Two
Whitley, M. J.


U.S. Destroyers
Friedman, Norman


United States Destroyer Operations In World War II.
Roscoe, Theodore

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