Allied Warships

USS Goff (DD 247)

Destroyer of the Clemson class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Clemson
Pennant	DD 247
Built by	New York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	16 Jun 1919
Launched	2 Jun 1920
Commissioned	19 Jan 1921
End service	21 Jul 1945
History	Decommissioned 13 January 1931 Recommissioned 2 March 1932 Decommissioned 21 July 1945 Stricken 13 August 1945 Sold 30 November 1945 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Goff (DD 247)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt. Noble Wayne Abrahams, USN	6 Jun 1939	13 Mar 1940
2	Bosquet Neill Wev, USN	13 Mar 1940	21 May 1940
3	Lt.Cdr. William Jefferson Marshall, USN	21 May 1940	15 Dec 1941
4	Lt.Cdr. Olin Perry Thomas, Jr., USN	15 Dec 1941	Sep 1942
5	Lt.Cdr. Charles Enright Weakley, USN	Sep 1942	5 Jul 1943
6	Hinton Ira Smith, USNR	5 Jul 1943	19 Aug 1944
7	Robert Herman Samek, USNR	19 Aug 1944	21 Jul 1945

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Notable events involving Goff include:

24 May 1942
USS Goff picks up 48 survivors from the American tanker Samuel Q. Brown that was torpedoed and sunk the previous day by German U-boat U-103 about 100 miles south of Cape Corrientes, Cuba in position 20°15'N, 84°37'W.