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USS Ellyson (DD 454)

Destroyer of the Bristol class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassBristol 
PennantDD 454 
Built byFederal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down20 Dec, 1940 
Launched25 Jul, 1941 
Commissioned28 Nov, 1941 
End service19 Oct, 1954 
Loss position
 
HistoryConverted to High Speed Minesweeper DMS-19 on 15 November 1944.
Reclassified back to destroyer DD-454 on 4 May 1954.
Decommissioned 19 October 1954.
Transferred to Japan 19 October 1954 being renamed Asakaze. Returned to America in 1970.
Transferred to Taiwan in August 1970 and cannibalized for spare parts. 

Noteable events involving Ellyson include:

14 Jan, 1942
USS Ellyson picks up survivors from the Panamanian tanker Norness that was torpedoed and sunk 60 nautical miles from Montauk Point, Long Island in position 40º28'N, 70º50'W by the German submarine U-123.

17 May, 1944
The German submarine U-616 was scuttled on 17 May, 1944 in the Mediterranean east of Cartagena, in position 36º46'N, 00º52'E, after fatal damages from depth charges from the US destroyers USS Nields, USS Gleaves, USS Ellyson, USS Macomb, USS Hambleton, USS Rodman, USS Emmons and by depth charges from a British Wellington aircraft (Sqdn. 36/K), after a 3 day-long hunt. (see map)


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