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Allied Warships

USS Broome (DD 210)

Destroyer of the Clemson class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassClemson 
PennantDD 210 
Built byWilliam Cramp and Sons (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down8 Oct, 1918 
Launched14 May, 1919 
Commissioned31 Oct, 1919 
End service20 May, 1946 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned 30 December 1922
Recommissioned 5 February 1930
Reclassified as Auxiliary AG-96 on 23 May 1945
Decommissioned 20 May 1946
Stricken 19 June 1946. Sold 20 November 1946 and broken up for scrap. 

Noteable events involving Broome include:

19 Apr, 1942
USS Broome picks up 27 survivors from the American merchant Alcoa Guide that was torpedoed and sunk on the April 17th by the German submarine U-123 some 300 miles east of Cape Hatteras in position 35.34N, 70.08W.


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