Allied Warships
USS Gleaves (DD 423)
Destroyer of the Benson / Gleaves class
USS Gleaves during the war
Navy | The US Navy |
Type | Destroyer |
Class | Benson / Gleaves |
Pennant | DD 423 |
Built by | Bath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.) |
Ordered | |
Laid down | 16 May 1938 |
Launched | 9 Dec 1939 |
Commissioned | 14 Jun 1940 |
End service | 8 May 1946 |
History | Decommissioned 8 May 1946. |
Commands listed for USS Gleaves (DD 423)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | Lt.Cdr. Edward Harris Pierce, USN | 14 Jun 1940 | 26 May 1942 |
2 | Lt.Cdr. Clarence Lindsay Winecoff, USN | 26 May 1942 | 17 Mar 1943 |
3 | T/Cdr. Byron Lawrence Gurnette, USN | 17 Mar 1943 | 2 Sep 1944 (1) |
4 | William Manson Klee, USN | 2 Sep 1944 | 8 May 1946 (1) |
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Notable events involving Gleaves include:
23 Mar 1942
HMS H 50 (Lt. H.B. Turner, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with USCGC Spencer and USS Gleaves. (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)
9 Oct 1943
USS Gleaves (Lt.Cdr. B.L. Gurnette, USN) picks up 64 survivors of the American destroyer USS Buck that was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-616 about 50 nautical miles south of Capri in position 38°57'N, 14°28'E.
17 May 1944
German U-boat U-616 was sunk on 17 May 1944 in the Mediterranean Sea north-west of Ténès, Algeria, in position 36°46'N, 00°52'E, by depth charges from the US destroyers USS Nields, USS Gleaves, USS Ellyson, USS Macomb, USS Hambleton, USS Rodman, USS Emmons and USS Hilary P. Jones and by depth charges from a British Wellington aircraft (36 Sqn RAF/K) on 15 May.
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Sources
- http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/423.htm
- ADM 173/17271
- ADM 173/17252
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.
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