Allied Warships

USS Clemson (AVD 4)

Destroyer of the Clemson class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Clemson
Pennant	AVD 4
Mod	Sea plane tender
Built by	Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. (Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	11 May 1918
Launched	5 Sep 1918
Commissioned	29 Dec 1919
End service	12 Oct 1945
History	Decommissioned on 30 June 1922 Reclassified as sea plane tender AVP-17 on 15 November 1939 Recommissioned on 12 July 1940 Classification changed to AVD-4 on 24 August 1940 Converted back into a destroyer during March-May 1943. Reclassified back to DD-186 on 1 December 1943 Converted to High Speed Transport and reclassified APD-31 on 1 May 1944 Reclassified back to Destroyer DD-186 on 16 July 1945 Decommissioned on 12 October 1945 Stricken on 24 October 1945 Sold to be broken up for scrap on 21 November 1946

Commands listed for USS Clemson (AVD 4)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. John Perry Whitney, USN	12 Jul 1940	28 Feb 1942
2	T/Lt.Cdr. William Mason Walsh, USN	28 Feb 1942	3 Mar 1942
3	Cdr. John Perry Whitney, USN	3 Mar 1942	22 Apr 1942 (1)
4	T/Lt.Cdr. William Mason Walsh, USN	22 Apr 1942	9 Feb 1943
5	T/Cdr. Evan White Yancey, USN	9 Feb 1943	3 Sep 1943
6	William Francis Moran, USNR	3 Sep 1943	4 Mar 1945
7	Arthur H. Hardy, Jr., USNR	4 Mar 1945	21 Sep 1945
8	James Howard Robertson, USNR	21 Sep 1945	12 Oct 1945

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Notable events involving Clemson include:

13 Dec 1943
German U-boat U-172 was sunk on 13 December 1943 in the mid-Atlantic after a 27 hour fight west of the Canary Islands, in position 26°29'N, 29°58'W, by depth charges and Fido homing torpedoes from Avenger and Wildcat aircraft (VC-19) of the American escort carrier USS Bogue and by some 200 depth charges from the US destroyers USS George E. Badger, USS Clemson, USS Osmond Ingram and USS Du Pont.