Allied Warships

USS Schenck (DD 159)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Wickes
Pennant	DD 159
Built by	New York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	26 Mar 1918
Launched	23 Apr 1919
Commissioned	30 Oct 1919
End service	17 May 1946
History	Decommissioned 9 June 1922 Recommissioned 1 May 1930 Reclassified as AG-82 on 2 September 1944 Decommissioned 17 May 1946 Stricken 5 June 1946 Sold 25 November 1946 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Schenck (DD 159)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt. Samuel Morgan Bailey, USN	28 Apr 1939	1 Nov 1939
2	Lt.Cdr. Thomas Henry Tonseth, USN	1 Nov 1939	19 May 1941
3	Lt.Cdr. Robert Beaman Ellis, USN	19 May 1941	26 May 1942
4	Lt. Brown Taylor, USN	26 May 1942	18 Sep 1942
5	Lt.Cdr. William Sears Estabrook, Jr., USN	18 Sep 1942	1 Sep 1943
6	Earl William Logsdon, USN	1 Sep 1943	8 Sep 1944
7	Franklin James Stanton, USNR	8 Sep 1944	12 Sep 1944
8	Lt. John Forrest Cross, USNR	12 Sep 1944	31 Aug 1945
9	Franklin James Stanton, USNR	31 Aug 1945	17 May 1946

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Notable events involving Schenck include:

24 Dec 1943
German U-boat U-645 was sunk in the North Atlantic north-east of the Azores, in position 45°20'N, 21°40'W, by depth charges from the US destroyer USS Schenck.