Allied Warships

USS Lamson (DD 367)

Destroyer of the Mahan class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Mahan
Pennant	DD 367
Built by	Bath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	20 Mar 1934
Launched	17 Jun 1936
Commissioned	1 Oct 1936
End service
History	Sunk in the atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll on 25 July 1946 Stricken 15 August 1946.

Commands listed for USS Lamson (DD 367)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Byron Hall Hanlon, USN	16 Jun 1938	Apr 1940 (1)
2	Lt.Cdr. Phillip Henry Pendleton, USN	Apr 1940	Apr 1941 (1)
3	Lt.Cdr. Preston Virginius Mercer, USN	Apr 1941	12 Jun 1942
4	Lt. Walter Terry Jenkins, USN	12 Jun 1942	23 Jun 1942
5	Lt.Cdr. Phillip Henry Fitzgerald, USN	23 Jun 1942	Nov 1943
6	T/Cdr. Joseph Russell Rubins, USN	Nov 1943	19 May 1944
7	T/Cdr. John Vavasour Noel, Jr., USN	19 May 1944	16 Aug 1945 (1)
8	Lt.Cdr. Robert McCormick Ayer, USNR	16 Aug 1945	24 Nov 1945

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Notable events involving Lamson include:

29 Dec 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. Holloway, Jr., USN) was undocked and then departed Seeadler Harbour for Pearl Harbour. No.3 propeller had been removed and sucured on the deck of the ship. During the trip to Pearl Harbour Iowa was escorted by the destroyers USS Caldwell (Lt.Cdr. D.R. Robinson, USNR), USS Killen (Cdr. H.G. Corey, USN) and USS Lamson (Cdr. J.V. Noel, Jr., USN).

For the daily positions of USS Iowa during this passage see the map below.