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Allied Warships

USS Trippe (DD 403)

Destroyer of the Benham class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassBenham 
PennantDD 403 
Built byBoston Navy Yard (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down15 Apr, 1937 
Launched14 May, 1938 
Commissioned1 Nov, 1939 
End service28 Aug, 1946 
Loss position
 
HistoryDamaged in the atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll in July 1946.
Decommissioned 28 August 1946.
Scuttled off Kwajalein on 3 February 1948.
Stricken 19 February 1948. 

Noteable events involving Trippe include:

16 Dec, 1943
The German submarine U-73 was sunk in the Mediterranean near Oran, in position 36º07'N, 00º50'W, by depth charges and gunfire from the US destroyers USS Woolsey and USS Trippe. (see map)


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