USS Benson (DD 421)

USS Benson during the war

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Benson / Gleaves
Pennant	DD 421
Built by	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	26 May 1939
Launched	15 Nov 1939
Commissioned	25 Jul 1940
End service	18 Mar 1946
History	Decommissioned 18 March 1946. Transferred to Taiwan 25 February 1954 and renamed Lo Yang. Lo Yang was stricken 1 November 1974 and broken up for scrap in 1975.

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Clifford Ashton Fines, USN	25 Jul 1940	5 Sep 1941
2	Lt. Knight Pryor, USN	5 Sep 1941	10 Sep 1941
3	Lt.Cdr. Clifford Ashton Fines, USN	10 Sep 1941	Feb 1943
4	Ronald Joseph Woodman, USN	Feb 1943	28 Feb 1944 (1)
5	Thomas Milton Foster, USN	28 Feb 1944	14 Mar 1944
6	T/Cdr. Jack Bercaw Williams, USN	14 Mar 1944	26 Sep 1944 (1)
7	T/Cdr. Edwin Elmer Lord, 3rd, USN	26 Sep 1944	18 Mar 1946 (1)

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23 Apr 1942
HMS H 43 (Lt. F.D.G. Challis, DSC, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with USS Benson, HMCS Collingwood (T/A/Lt.Cdr. W. Woods, RCNR), HMCS Hepatica (T/Lt. T. Gilmour, RCNR) and FFS Aconit. (2)

18 Aug 1942
HMS H 43 (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxburgh, DSC, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with aircraft, HMS Monkshood (Lt. G.W. McGuiness, RNR), USS Gleaves, USS Mayo, USS Niblack and USS Benson. (3)

19 Aug 1942
HMS H 43 (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxburgh, DSC, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with USS Niblack, USS Benson, USS Gleaves and USS Mayo. (3)