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Allied Warships

USS Stringham (APD 6)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassWickes 
PennantAPD 6 
Built byFore River Shipbuilding Co. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down17 Sep, 1917 
Launched30 Mar, 1918 
Commissioned2 Jul, 1918 
End service9 Nov, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned at Philadelphia 2 June 2 1922
Stringham was moved to Norfolk and converted into a high speed transport and reclassified APD-6 on 2 August 1940
Recommissioned as high speed tansport 11 December 1940
Reclassified to DD-83 22 June 1945
Decommissioned at Philadelphia 9 November 1945
Stricken 5 December 1945
Sold and broken up for scrap in 1946.  

Noteable events involving Stringham include:

19 Mar, 1942
USS Stringham picks up 32 survivors from the American tanker Papoose that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-124 about 15 nautical miles south-west of Cape Lookout in position 34º17'N, 76º39'W.


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