Allied Warships

USS Goldsborough (AVD 5)

Destroyer of the Clemson class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassClemson 
PennantAVD 5 
Built byNewport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. (Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down8 Jun 1918 
Launched20 Nov 1918 
Commissioned26 Jan 1920 
End service11 Oct 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned on 14 July 1922
Reclassified as sea plane tender AVP-18 on 15 November 1939
Classification changed to AVD-5 on 24 August 1940
Reclassified back to destroyer DD-188 on 1 December 1943
Converted to high speed transport and reclassified APD-32 on 7 March 1944
Classification changed back to Destroyer DD-188 on 10 July 1945
Decommissioned on 11 October 1945
Stricken on 24 October 1945
Sold to be broken up for scrap on 21 November 1946

 

Commands listed for USS Goldsborough (AVD 5)

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1Lt.Cdr. Roland Philip Kauffman, USN12 Jul 1940???

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Noteable events involving Goldsborough include:


6 Aug 1943
The British merchant Fort Halkett is torpedoed and sunk with gunfire by the German submarine U-185 about 600 miles southeast of Natal, Brazil in position 09.30S, 26.50W. USS Goldsborough later picks up 24 survivors.

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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