Allied Warships

USS Clark (DD 361)

Destroyer of the Porter class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Porter
Pennant	DD 361
Built by	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	2 Jan 1934
Launched	15 Oct 1935
Commissioned	20 May 1936
End service	23 Oct 1945
History	Decommissioned 23 October 1945 Stricken 16 November 1945 Sold and broken up for scrap 29 March 1946.

Commands listed for USS Clark (DD 361)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Cdr. Richard Waller Bates, USN	18 Jun 1938	21 Jun 1940 (1)
2	Thomas Howell Binford, USN	21 Jun 1940	30 Dec 1940 (1)
3	Cdr. Myron Turner Richardson, USN	30 Dec 1940	Dec 1942 (1)
4	Lt.Cdr. Lawrence Henry Martin, USN	Dec 1942	Feb 1944
5	Arthur Reberg Manning, USN	Feb 1944	15 Jan 1945
6	Robert Henry Hopkins, USNR	15 Jan 1945	23 Oct 1945

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Notable events involving Clark include:

1 May 1945
USS R-1 (Lt. W.A. Schoenfeld, USN) conducted A/S exercises off Casco Bay, Maine together with USS Clark (Lt.Cdr. R.H. Hopkins, USNR) and USS Phelps (Lt.Cdr. R.B. Erly, USN).