Allied Warships

USS Lardner (DD 487)

Destroyer of the Bristol class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Bristol
Pennant	DD 487
Built by	Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	15 Sep 1941
Launched	20 Mar 1942
Commissioned	13 May 1942
End service	16 May 1946
History	Decommissioned 16 May 1946. Stricken 15 August 1949. Transferred to Turkey on 10 June 1949 being renamed Gemlik. Gemlik was stricken in 1974. Sunk as a target on 21 November 1982 in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Commands listed for USS Lardner (DD 487)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Willard Merton Sweetser, USN	13 May 1942	16 Jun 1943
2	T/Lt.Cdr. Otto Carl Schatz, Jr., USN	16 Jun 1943	19 May 1944 (1)
3	T/Cdr. Jefferson David Parker, USN	19 May 1944	7 Jun 1945 (1)
4	LCdr James Boyd, III, USN	7 Jun 1945	16 May 1946 (1)

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Notable events involving Lardner include:

7 Jul 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. McCrea, USN) anchored off Saipan Island and fuelled the destroyers USS Lardner (Lt.Cdr. J.D. Parker, USN) and USS McCalla (Lt.Cdr. E.K. Jones, USN). She got underway again later the same day.

13 Jul 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. McCrea, USN) anchored off Saipan Island and fuelled the destroyers USS Lardner (Lt.Cdr. J.D. Parker, USN) and USS McCalla (Lt.Cdr. E.K. Jones, USN). She got underway again later the same day.