Allied Warships

USS Upshur (DD 144)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassWickes 
PennantDD 144 
Built byWilliam Cramp and Sons (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down19 Feb 1918 
Launched4 Jul 1918 
Commissioned23 Dec 1918 
End service11 Nov 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned at San Diego, California on 15 May 1922
Recommissioned on 2 June 1930
Decommissioned at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 22 December 1936
Recommissioned on 4 October 1939
Reclassified AG-103 30 June 1945
Decommissioned at Norfolk, Virginia on 11 November 1945
Stricken 16 November 1945
Sold 26 September 1947 and broken up for scrap.

 

Commands listed for USS Upshur (DD 144)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt.Cdr. Ralph Ensign Wilson, USN1939???

2Lt.Cdr. William Kilian Romoser, USN19401942

3Lt.Cdr. Ernest Bradford Ellsworth, Jr., USNNov 1942Mar 1944

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Media links


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Whitley, M. J.


U.S. Destroyers
Friedman, Norman


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

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