Allied Warships

USS Winslow (DD 359)

Destroyer of the Porter class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Porter
Pennant	DD 359
Built by	New York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	18 Dec 1933
Launched	21 Sep 1936
Commissioned	17 Feb 1937
End service	28 Jun 1950
History	Reclassified AG-127 on 17 September 1945 Decommissioned 28 June 1950 Stricken 5 December 1957 Sold 23 February 1959 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Winslow (DD 359)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Randall Euesta Dees, USN	9 Jun 1939	20 Jun 1941 (1)
2	Cdr. Harold Romeyn Holcomb, USN	20 Jun 1941	7 Jan 1942
3	Lt.Cdr. William Jefferson Marshall, USN	7 Jan 1942	30 Jun 1942
4	Lt.Cdr. Warren Porter Mowatt, USN	30 Jun 1942	12 Feb 1943
5	Lt. William Tindall Samuels, USN	12 Feb 1943	13 Mar 1943
6	Lt.Cdr. Alexander Martin Kowalzyk, Jr., USN	13 Mar 1943	10 Nov 1943
7	Lt.Cdr. William Tindall Samuels, USN	10 Nov 1943	12 Jul 1945
8	Lt.Cdr. John Paul Howatt, USN	12 Jul 1945	28 Jan 1947

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Notable events involving Winslow include:

13 Dec 1941
HMS Dorsetshire (Capt. A.W.S. Agar, VC, DSO, RN) departed Simonstown to escort convoy WS 12X to Bombay. This convoy was made up of the US troopships (carrying British troops !!!); Wakefield (24289 GRT, built 1931), Mount Vernon (24289 GRT, built 1932), West Point (26454 GRT, built 1940), Leonard Wood (13712 GRT, built 1922), Joseph T. Dickman (13869 GRT, built 1922) and Orizaba (6937 GRT, built 1918).

HMS Dorsetshire made rendez-vous at sea with the convoy that had departed Capetown earlier that day and was at that time escorted by the US destroyers USS Wainwright, USS Moffett, USS McDougal, USS Winslow, USS Mayrant and USS Rowan. These destroyers parted company with the convoy at 1600C/14 (C = time zone -3). (2)