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Allied Warships

USS Goff (DD 247)

Destroyer of the Clemson class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassClemson 
PennantDD 247 
Built byNew York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down16 Jun, 1919 
Launched2 Jun, 1920 
Commissioned19 Jan, 1921 
End service21 Jul, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned 13 January 1931
Recommissioned 2 March 1932
Decommissioned 21 July 1945
Stricken 13 August 1945
Sold 30 November 1945 and broken up for scrap. 

Noteable events involving Goff include:

24 May, 1942
USS Goff picks up 48 survivors from the American tanker Samuel Q. Brown that was torpedoed and sunk the previous day by the German submarine U-103 about 100 miles south of Cape Corrientes, Cuba in position 20.15N, 84.37W.


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