Allied Warships

USS Abbot (ii) (DD 629)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 629
Built by	Bath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.)
Ordered	16 Dec 1940
Laid down	21 Sep 1942
Launched	17 Feb 1943
Commissioned	23 Apr 1943
End service	26 Mar 1965
History	Decommissioned 21 May 1946. Recommissioned 26 February 1951. Decommissioned 26 March 1965. Stricken 1 December 1974. Sold 31 July 1975 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Abbot (ii) (DD 629)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lcmdr Chester Edward Carroll, USN	23 Apr 1943	13 Aug 1943
2	T/Cdr. Marshall Edgar Dornin, USN	13 Aug 1943	14 Aug 1944
3	Francis Walford Ingling, USN	14 Aug 1944	21 May 1946

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Notable events involving Abbot (ii) include:

3 Jun 1943
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. McCrea, USN) conducted trials and exercises off Casco Bay, Maine. She was escorted by USS Kidd (Lt.Cdr. A.B. Roby, Sr., USN) and USS Abbot (Cdr. C.E. Carroll, USN).

4 Jun 1943
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. McCrea, USN) conducted trials and exercises off Casco Bay, Maine. She was escorted by USS Kidd (Lt.Cdr. A.B. Roby, Sr., USN) and USS Abbot (Cdr. C.E. Carroll, USN).

5 Jun 1943
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. McCrea, USN) conducted trials and exercises off Casco Bay, Maine. She was escorted by USS Kidd (Lt.Cdr. A.B. Roby, Sr., USN) and USS Abbot (Cdr. C.E. Carroll, USN).

6 Jun 1943
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. McCrea, USN) conducted trials and exercises off Casco Bay, Maine. She was escorted by USS Kidd (Lt.Cdr. A.B. Roby, Sr., USN) and USS Abbot (Cdr. C.E. Carroll, USN).

10 Sep 1943
After a work-up USS Abbot departed from the US east coast for the Pacific

16 Sep 1943
USS Abbot transits the Panama Canal

18 Oct 1943
While training out of Pearl Harbour USS Abbot collides with the light aircraft carrier USS Cowpens. Abbot is out of action for two months while she is repaired at the Pearl Harbour Navy Yard.