Allied Warships

USS Kilty (DD 137)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassWickes 
PennantDD 137 
Built byMare Island Navy Yard (Vallejo, California, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down15 Dec 1917 
Launched25 Apr 1918 
Commissioned17 Dec 1918 
End service2 Nov 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned at San Diego, California on 5 June 1922
Recommissioned on 18 December 1939
Converted to High Speed Transport APD-15 on 1 March 1943
Reclassified back to destroyer DD-137 on 20 July 1945
Decommissioned at San Diego on 2 November 1945
Stricken 16 November 1945
Sold 26 August 1946 and broken up for scrap.

 

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