Navy | The US Navy |
Type | Destroyer |
Class | Benson / Gleaves |
Pennant | DD 438 |
Built by | Bath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.) |
Ordered | 15 Jun 1939 |
Laid down | 8 Dec 1939 |
Launched | 11 Nov 1940 |
Commissioned | 5 Mar 1941 |
End service | 20 May 1946 |
History | Decommissioned 20 May 1946. |
Commands listed for USS Ludlow (DD 438)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | Lt.Cdr. Claude Henry Bennett, Jr., USN | 5 Mar 1941 | 19 Sep 1942 |
2 | Cdr. Liles Walker Creighton, USN | 19 Sep 1942 | 8 Feb 1944 |
3 | Lt. Phillip Cutler, USN | 8 Feb 1944 | 25 Feb 1944 (1) |
4 | William Roy Barnes, USN | 25 Feb 1944 | 28 Feb 1945 (1) |
5 | T/Cdr. Stanley Maitland Barnes, USN | 28 Feb 1945 | 26 Feb 1946 (1) |
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Notable events involving Ludlow include:
1 Jun 1942
USS Ludlow (Lt.Cdr. C.H. Bennett, Jr., USN) picks up 32 survivors from the British merchant Fred W. Green that was shelled and sunk by German U-boat U-506 on 31 May about 200 miles southeast of Bermuda in position 30°20'N, 62°00'W.
3 Sep 1942
HMS H 32 (Lt. J.R. Drummond, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with HMCS Amherst (T/Lt. H.G. Denyer, RCNR), HMCS St. Croix (A/Lt.Cdr. A.H. Dobson, DSC, RCNR), USS Nicholson and USS Ludlow. (2)
4 Sep 1942
HMS H 43 (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxburgh, DSC, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with USS Nicholson, USS Ludlow and USS Cole. (3)
19 May 1944
German U-boat U-960 was sunk in the Mediterranean north-west of Algiers, in position 37°20'N, 01°35'E, by the US destroyers USS Niblack, USS Ludlow and Wellingtons (Sqdn 36) and Venturas (Sqdn 500).
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Sources
- http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/438.htm
- ADM 173/17217
- ADM 173/17253
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.
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