Allied Warships

USS Roe (DD 418)

Destroyer of the Sims class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Sims
Pennant	DD 418
Built by	Charleston Navy Yard (Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	23 Apr 1938
Launched	21 Jun 1939
Commissioned	5 Jan 1940
End service	30 Oct 1945
History	Decommissioned 30 October 1945. Stricken 16 November 1945. Sold 1 August 1947 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Roe (DD 418)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Richard Martin Scruggs, USN	5 Jan 1940	16 Oct 1941
2	Lt.Cdr. John Newton Opie, 3rd, USN	16 Oct 1941	16 Oct 1942 (1)
3	T/Lt.Cdr. Rathel Linwood Nolan, Jr., USN	16 Oct 1942	8 Nov 1943
4	T/Cdr. Francis Stephen Stich, USN	8 Nov 1943	8 Sep 1944
5	T/Cdr. James Pressley Craft, Jr., USN	8 Sep 1944	29 Jul 1945 (1)
6	Guy Edward Hearn, Jr., USN	29 Jul 1945	30 Oct 1945 (1)

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Notable events involving Roe include:

18 Jan 1942
USS Roe picks up 13 survivors from the American tanker Allan Jackson that was torpedoed and sunk earlier that day by German U-boat U-66 some 60 miles east-northeast of Diamond shoals, North Carolina in position 35°57'N, 74°20'W.

30 Jan 1942
USS Roe picks up 31 survivors from the American tanker Rochester that was torpedoed and sunk earlier that day by German U-boat U-106 about 85 miles east of the Chesapeake Lightship in position 37°10'N, 73°58'W.

8 Feb 1942
USS Roe picks up 14 survivors from the British merchant Ocean Venture that was torpedoed and sunk earlier that day by German U-boat U-108 near Cape Hatteras in position 37°05'N, 74°46'W.

22 Mar 1942
USS Roe picks up 52 survivors from the British tanker Athelviscount that was torpedoed and damaged by German U-boat U-202 about 600 miles east-southeast of Halifax in position 38°46'N, 52°44'W. The next day, the destroyer returned most of the crew to the abandoned tanker which was subsequently towed in, but 19 survivors remained aboard and were later landed at New York.