USS Breese (DM 18)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Wickes
Pennant	DM 18
Mod	Destroyer minelayer
Built by	Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. (Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	10 Nov 1917
Launched	11 May 1918
Commissioned	23 Oct 1918
End service	15 Jan 1946
History	Decommissioned on 17 June 1922. Reclassified as Light Minelayer DM-18 on 5 January 1931. Recommissioned as DM-18 on 1 June 1931. Decommissioned on 12 November 1937. Recommissioned on 25 September 1939. Decommissioned on 15 January 1946. Stricken on 7 February 1946. Sold to be broken up for scrap on 16 May 1946.

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. William Jenkins Longfellow, USN	25 Sep 1939	9 Nov 1940 (1)
2	Herald Franklin Staut, USN	9 Nov 1940	20 Sep 1942 (1)
3	Lt. Alexander Bacon Coxe, Jr., USN	20 Sep 1942	31 Mar 1944 (1)
4	David Barney Cohen, USN	31 Mar 1944	7 Dec 1944 (1)
5	George W. McKnight, USNR	7 Dec 1944	24 Jul 1945
6	David James Pikkaart, USNR	24 Jul 1945	23 Oct 1945

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