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USS Lea (DD 118)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassWickes 
PennantDD 118 
Built byWilliam Cramp and Sons (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down18 Sep, 1917 
Launched29 Apr, 1918 
Commissioned2 Oct, 1918 
End service20 Jul, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned at San Diego, California on 1 May 1930
Recommissioned on 30 September 1939
Decommissioned at Philadelphia on 20 July 1945
Stricken 13 August 1945
Sold 30 November 1945 and broken up for scrap.  

Noteable events involving Lea include:

27 Aug, 1942
USS Lea and USS PE-38 together pick up 33 survivors from the British tanker San Fabian that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-511 about 120 nautical miles south-south-east of Guantanamo in position 18º09'N, 74º38'W.

3 Nov, 1942
USS Lea picks up 8 survivors from the Canadian merchant Chr. J. Kampmann that was torpedoed and sunk northwest of Grenada in position 12º06'N, 62º42'W by the German submarine U-160.



Books dealing with this subject include:

Destroyer Leader, Smith, Peter Charles, 1968
The Enemy Below, Rayner, D. A., 1956 (transl.)


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