| Navy | The US Navy |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Class | Wickes |
| Pennant | DD 157 |
| Built by | New York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 25 May, 1918 |
| Launched | 12 Mar, 1919 |
| Commissioned | 3 Sep, 1919 |
| Lost | 4 Apr, 1945 |
| Loss position | |
| History | Decommissioned 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 |