Allied Warships

USS Dickerson (DD 157)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Wickes
Pennant	DD 157
Built by	New York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	25 May 1918
Launched	12 Mar 1919
Commissioned	3 Sep 1919
Lost	4 Apr 1945
History	Decommissioned 25 June 1922 Recommissioned 1 May 1930 Converted to High Speed Transport APD-21 on 21 August 1943 USS Dickerson (Lt.Cdr. Ralph Emerson Lounsbury,Jr. USNR) was irreparably damaged by Japanese Kamikaze Attack off Okinawa 2 April 1945. 51 of the crew were killed including the Commanding officer,and the survivors were rescued by the USS Bunch/Herbert though 26 of them were wounded. However after being towed by USS Arikara to Kerama Retto she was scuttled after being decommissioned on the 04th April,1945.

Commands listed for USS Dickerson (DD 157)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt. Martin Robert Stone, USN	9 May 1939	31 Oct 1940
2	Lt. John Keane Reybold, USN	31 Oct 1940	19 Mar 1942 (+)
3	Lt. Francis Edmond Wilson, USN	19 Mar 1942	11 Feb 1943
4	Lt.Cdr. James Robert Cain, Jr., USNR	11 Feb 1943	11 Aug 1944
5	Ralph Emerson Lounsbury, Jr., USNR	11 Aug 1944	2 Apr 1945 (+)

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Notable events involving Dickerson include:

18 Mar 1942
USS Dickerson picks up 14 survivors from the American tanker E.M. Clark that was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-124 about 22 nautical miles south-west of the Diamond Shoals Lighted Buoy in position 34°50'N, 75°35'W.