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USS Ludlow (DD 438)

Destroyer of the Benson / Gleaves class


USS Ludlow as completed

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassBenson / Gleaves 
PennantDD 438 
Built byBath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down8 Dec, 1939 
Launched11 Nov, 1940 
Commissioned5 Mar, 1941 
End service20 May, 1946 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned 20 May 1946.
Stricken 24 January 1951.
Transferred to Greece 22 January 1951 being renamed Doxa. Doxa was stricken and broken up for scrap in 1972. 

Noteable events involving Ludlow include:

31 May, 1942
The British merchant Fred W. Green is sunk with gunfire by the German submarine U-506 southeast of Bermuda in position 30º20'N, 62º00'W. USS Ludlow later picks up 36 survivors.

19 May, 1944
The German submarine U-960 was sunk in the Mediterranean north-west of Algiers, in position 37º20'N, 01º35'E, by the US destroyers USS Niblack, USS Ludlow and Wellingtons (Sqdn 36) and Venturas (Sqdn 500). (see map)


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