Allied Warships

USS Childs (AVD 1)

Destroyer of the Clemson class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassClemson 
PennantAVD 1 
Built byNew York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down19 Mar 1919 
Launched15 Sep 1920 
Commissioned22 Oct 1920 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Reclassified as sea plane tender AVP-14 on 1 July 1938
Reclassified as AVD-1 on 2 August 1940
Decommissioned on 10 December 1945
Stricken on 3 January 1946
Sold to be broken up for scrap on 23 May 1946

 

Commands listed for USS Childs (AVD 1)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt.Cdr. John Harrison Seemes Dessez, USN7 Jan 1926Feb 1928

2Lt.Cdr. Harold Foster Fick, USN1939???

3Cdr. John Lockwood Pratt, USN1941???

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