Allied Warships

USS Kennison (DD 138)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassWickes 
PennantDD 138 
Built byMare Island Navy Yard (Vallejo, California, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down14 Feb 1918 
Launched8 Jun 1918 
Commissioned2 Apr 1919 
End service18 Nov 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned at San Diego, California on 22 June 1922
Recommissioned on 18 December 1939
Reclassified as target ship AG-83 on 1 October 1944
Decommissioned at Philadelphia on 18 November 1945
Stricken 5 December 1945
Sold 18 November 1946 and broken up for scrap.

 

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