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Allied Warships

USS McKean (i) (APD 5)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassWickes 
PennantAPD 5 
Built byUnion Iron Works (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down12 Feb, 1918 
Launched4 Jul, 1918 
Commissioned25 Feb, 1919 
Lost17 Nov, 1943 
Loss position06.31S, 154.52E (See a map)
 
HistoryDecommissioned at Philadelphia 19 June 1922
Towed to Norfolk in early 1940 for conversion to a high speed transport
Reclassified APD-4 on 2 August 1940
Recommissioned at Norfolk 11 December 1940
Sunk by Japanese aircraft off Bougainville in position 06º31'S, 154º52'E. 64 of her crew and 52 marines were lost.  

Noteable events involving McKean (i) include:

21 Mar, 1942
USS McKean picks up 8 survivors from the American tanker Esso Nashville that was torpedoed and heavily damaged by the German submarine U-124 about 16 nautical miles north-east of the Frying Pan Lightship Buoy in position 33º35'N, 77º.22'W.

10 May, 1942
The British merchant Clan Skene is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-333 about 300 nautical miles south-east of Cape Hatteras in position 31º43'N, 70º43'W. 73 survivors are later picked up by USS McKean.


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