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 
History

Decommissioned 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.

 

Commands listed for USS Stringham (APD 6)

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CommanderFromTo
Adolph Wildner, USN
John Boone Schley, USN
1Lt.Cdr. Donald Cord Varian, USN1940???

2Lt.Cdr. Ralph Henning Moureau, USN1943???

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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 German U-boat U-124 about 15 nautical miles south-west of Cape Lookout in position 34°17'N, 76°39'W.

Media links


Destroyers of World War Two
Whitley, M. J.


U.S. Destroyers
Friedman, Norman


United States Destroyer Operations In World War II.
Roscoe, Theodore

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