Allied Warships

USS Herbert (DD 160)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Wickes
Pennant	DD 160
Built by	New York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	9 Apr 1918
Launched	8 May 1919
Commissioned	21 Nov 1919
End service	25 Sep 1945
History	Decommissioned 27 June 1922 Recommissioned 1 May 1930 Converted to High Speed Transport APD-22 on 1 December 1943 Decommissioned 25 September 1945 Stricken 24 October 1945 Sold 23 May 1946 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Herbert (DD 160)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Robert Paul Wadell, USN	16 Aug 1939	8 Oct 1940
2	Lt.Cdr. William Ernest Verge, USN	8 Oct 1940	14 Mar 1941
3	Lt.Cdr. Warren Porter Mowatt, USN	14 Mar 1941	27 Jun 1942
4	T/Lt.Cdr. Joseph Aloysius Eslen Hindman, USN	27 Jun 1942	15 Feb 1943
5	Lt. John Norwood Ferguson, Jr., USN	15 Feb 1943	7 Oct 1944
6	Gerald Sellen Hewitt, USNR	7 Oct 1944	25 Sep 1945

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Notable events involving Herbert include:

11 Apr 1942
USS Herbert picks up 2 survivors from the American tanker Harry F. Sinclair, Jr. that was torpedoed and damaged by German U-boat U-203 7 miles south of Cape Lookout in position 34°25'N, 76°30'W.