Destroyer of the Sims class
| Navy | The US Navy |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Class | Sims |
| Pennant | DD 418 |
| Built by | Charleston Navy Yard (Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 23 Apr, 1938 |
| Launched | 21 Jun, 1939 |
| Commissioned | 5 Jan, 1940 |
| End service | 30 Oct, 1945 |
| Loss position | |
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| History | Decommissioned 30 October 1945.
Stricken 16 November 1945.
Sold 1 August 1947 and broken up for scrap. |
| Noteable events involving Roe include: 18 Jan, 1942
USS Roe picks up 13 survivors from the American tanker Allan Jackson that was torpedoed and sunk earlier that day by the German submarine U-66 some 60 miles east-northeast of Diamond shoals, North Carolina in position 35º57'N, 74º20'W. 30 Jan, 1942
USS Roe picks up 31 survivors from the American tanker Rochester that was torpedoed and sunk earlier that day by the German submarine U-106 about 85 miles east of the Chesapeake Lightship in position 37º10'N, 73º58'W. 8 Feb, 1942
USS Roe picks up 14 survivors from the British merchant Ocean Venture that was torpedoed and sunk earlier that day by the German submarine U-108 near Cape Hatteras in position 37º05'N, 74º46'W. |
