Allied Warships

USS Cole (DD 155)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassWickes 
PennantDD 155 
Built byWilliam Cramp and Sons (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down25 Jun 1918 
Launched11 Jan 1919 
Commissioned19 Jun 1919 
End service1 Nov 1945 
History

Decommissioned 10 July 10 1922
Recommissioned 1 May 1930
Decommissioned 7 January 1937
Recommissioned 16 October 1939
Reclassified as auxiliary AG-116 on 30 June 1945
Decommissioned 1 November 1945
Stricken 16 November 1945
Sold 6 October 1947 and broken up for scrap.

 

Commands listed for USS Cole (DD 155)

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1Lt.Cdr. George Goldston Palmer, USN< Nov 42???

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Notable events involving Cole include:


4 Sep 1942
HMS H 43 (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxburgh, DSC, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with USS Nicholson, USS Ludlow and USS Cole. (1)

Media links


Destroyers of World War Two
Whitley, M. J.


U.S. Destroyers
Friedman, Norman


United States Destroyer Operations In World War II.
Roscoe, Theodore

Sources

  1. ADM 173/17253

ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.


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