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Allied Warships

USS Dickerson (DD 157)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassWickes 
PennantDD 157 
Built byNew York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down25 May, 1918 
Launched12 Mar, 1919 
Commissioned3 Sep, 1919 
Lost4 Apr, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned 25 June 1922
Recommissioned 1 May 1930
Converted to High Speed Transport APD-21 on 21 August 1943
Dickerson was irreparably damaged by Japanese Kamikaze Attack off Okinawa 2 April 1945
Decommissioned 4 April 1945
Scuttled off Kerama Retto 4 April 1945. 

Noteable events involving Dickerson include:

18 Mar, 1942
USS Dickerson picks up 14 survivors from the American tanker E.M. Clark that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-124 about 22 nautical miles south-west of the Diamond Shoals Lighted Buoy in position 34º50'N, 75º35'W.


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