USS Ward (DD 139)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Wickes
Pennant	DD 139
Built by	Mare Island Navy Yard (Vallejo, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	15 May 1918
Launched	1 Jun 1918
Commissioned	24 Jul 1918
Lost	7 Dec 1944
Loss position	10° 51'N, 124° 33'E

History	USS Ward was launched in a record 15 days after being laid down. Decommissioned on 21 July 1921 at San Diego, California Recommissioned on 15 January 1941 Reclassified as High Speed Transport APD-16 on 6 February 1943 USS Ward was heavily damaged by a Japanese kamikaze attack in Ormoc Bay, Philippines in position 10º51'N, 124º33'E. Ward was scuttled by USS O'Brien

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Hunter Wood, Jr., USN	15 Jan 1941	5 Dec 1941
2	Lt. William Woodward Outerbridge, USN	5 Dec 1941	1 Jul 1942
3	Lt.Cdr. Robert Holden Wilkinson, USN	1 Jul 1942	10 Nov 1942
4	Frederick von Windegger Lemly, USNR	10 Nov 1942	28 Oct 1944
5	Richard Edwrad Farwell, USNR	28 Oct 1944	7 Dec 1944

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