Allied Warships

USS Buchanan (ii) (DD 484)

Destroyer of the Bristol class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Bristol
Pennant	DD 484
Built by	Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	11 Feb 1941
Launched	22 Nov 1941
Commissioned	21 Mar 1942
End service	28 Apr 1948
History	Decommissioned 21 May 1946. Stricken 7 June 1949. Transferred to Turkey 28 April 1949 being renamed Gelibolu. Gilibolu was stricken and scraped in 1976.

Commands listed for USS Buchanan (ii) (DD 484)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Ralph Ensign Wilson, USN	21 Mar 1942	5 Jan 1943
2	T/Cdr. Floyd Bertram Thomas Myhre, USN	5 Jan 1943	5 Feb 1944
3	T/Cdr. Robert William Curtis, USN	5 Feb 1944	6 Mar 1945
4	Lt.Cdr. Daniel Ermentrout Henry, USN	6 Mar 1945	21 May 1946

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Notable events involving Buchanan (ii) include:

22 Jan 1944
The US Oiler USS Cache is torpedoed and damaged by the Japanese submarine RO-37 (offsite link) about 155 nautical miles south-east of San Cristobal, Solomons in position 12°08'S, 164°23'E.

The Cache sent out an SOS that reached the nearby US destroyer USS Buchanan (Cdr. F.B.T. Myhre, USN). While racing towards the scene at full speed the Buchanan picks up a radar echo that turned out to be RO-37. The Japanese submarine was eventually sunk by Buchanan after more than two hours about 130 nautical miles east-south-east of San Cristobal in position 11°47'S, 164°17'E.

18 Aug 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. C. Wellborn, Jr., USN) topped off two of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Cushing (Lt.Cdr. W.D. Adams, USN) and USS Buchanan (Lt.Cdr. D.E. Henry, USN), with fuel. Following the fuelling of these destroyers Iowa herself was fuelled by the oiler USS Atascosa (Cdr. H.L. de Riviera, USN).