Allied Warships

USS Du Pont (DD 152)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Wickes
Pennant	DD 152
Built by	William Cramp and Sons (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	2 May 1918
Launched	22 Oct 1918
Commissioned	30 Apr 1919
End service	2 May 1946
History	Decommissioned at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19 April 1922 Recommisioned 15 August 1934 Decommissioned 14 January 1937 Recommissioned 16 October 1939 Converted for target towing and reclassified as AG-80 on 25 September 1944 Decommissioned 2 May 1946 Sold for scrap 12 March 1946.

Commands listed for USS Du Pont (DD 152)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. William LeRoy Messmer, USN	16 Oct 1939	10 Jul 1940
2	Lt.Cdr. Eugene Matthew Waldron, USN	10 Jul 1940	17 Dec 1941
3	Lt. Ernest William Longton, USN	17 Dec 1941	6 Mar 1942
4	T/Lt.Cdr. Frank Marshall Adamson, USN	6 Mar 1942	25 Jan 1943
5	T/Cdr. James Gilbert Marshall, USN	25 Jan 1943	17 Mar 1944
6	William Henry Stewart, USNR	17 Mar 1944	7 Oct 1944
7	Richard Berrian Hadaway, USNR	7 Oct 1944	1 Mar 1945
8	Lt. Walter Herman Dietz, Jr., USNR	1 Mar 1945	21 Nov 1945

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Notable events involving Du Pont include:

15 Mar 1942
USS Du Pont picks up 26 survivors from the American merchant Ario that was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-158 east of Cape Lookout in position 34°37'N, 76°20'W.

13 Dec 1943
German U-boat U-172 was sunk on 13 December 1943 in the mid-Atlantic after a 27 hour fight west of the Canary Islands, in position 26°29'N, 29°58'W, by depth charges and Fido homing torpedoes from Avenger and Wildcat aircraft (VC-19) of the American escort carrier USS Bogue and by some 200 depth charges from the US destroyers USS George E. Badger, USS Clemson, USS Osmond Ingram and USS Du Pont.