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 |
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.
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