Allied Warships

USS Bennett (DD 473)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 473
Built by	Boston Navy Yard (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Ordered	28 Jun 1940
Laid down	10 Dec 1941
Launched	16 Apr 1942
Commissioned	19 Feb 1943
End service
History	Decommissioned 18 April 1946. Transferred to Brazil on 15 December 1959 being renamed Paraiba. Paraiba was stricken and scraped in 1978.

Commands listed for USS Bennett (DD 473)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Edmund Battelle Taylor, USN	9 Feb 1943	31 Jul 1943
2	T/Lt.Cdr. Philip Frederick Hauck, USN	31 Jul 1943	5 Nov 1944
3	T/Cdr. Jasper Newton McDonald, Jr., USN	5 Nov 1944	18 Apr 1946

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Notable events involving Bennett include:

6 Apr 1943
USS Bennett picks up 57 survivors from the American merchant John Sevier that was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-185 about 20 nautical miles south-west of Great Inagua Island in position 20°49'N, 74°00'W.

24 Jan 1945
USS Searaven (T/Lt.Cdr. T.M. Ustick, USN) conducted A/S exercises off Pearl Harbour with USS Bennett (T/Cdr. J.N. McDonald, Jr., USN) and USS Anthony (T/Cdr. C.J. van Arsdall, Jr., USN). (1)