Allied Warships

USS Borie (ii) (DD 704)

Destroyer of the Allen M. Sumner class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassAllen M. Sumner 
PennantDD 704 
Built byFederal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.) 
Ordered7 Aug 1942 
Laid down29 Feb 1944 
Launched4 Jul 1944 
Commissioned21 Sep 1944 
End service1 Jul 1972 
History

Decommissioned and stricken 1 July 1972.
Transferred to Argentina 1 July 1972 being renamed Hipolito Bouchard.
Hipolito Bouchard was stricken and broken up for scrap in 1984.

 

Commands listed for USS Borie (ii) (DD 704)

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CommanderFromTo
1T/Cdr. Noah Adair, Jr., USN21 Sep 194431 Oct 1945
2T/Cdr. John Chapman Morgan, USN31 Oct 194512 Nov 1946

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Notable events involving Borie (ii) include:


4 Jan 1945
USS Borie arrived at Pearl Harbor to join the Pacific fleet.

9 Aug 1945
USS Borie (Cmdr Noah Adair, jr.) is hit by a Japanese kamikaze aircraft east of Honshu, Japan in position 37°21'N, 143°45'E. Borie was hit between the mast and the 5-inch gun director causing extensive damage. 48 men were killed and 66 men were wounded.

Media links


Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.


U.S. Destroyers

Friedman, Norman


United States Destroyer Operations In World War II.

Roscoe, Theodore


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