Allied Warships

USS Schley (DD 103)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassWickes 
PennantDD 103 
Built byUnion Iron Works (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down29 Oct 1917 
Launched28 Mar 1918 
Commissioned20 Sep 1918 
End service5 Nov 1945 
History

Decommissioned at San Diego 1 June 1922
Recommissioned 3 October 1940
Reclassified high speed transport APD-14 on 6 February 1943
Reclassified back to DD-103 5 July 1945
Decommissioned at Philadelphia 5 November 1945
Stricken 5 December 1945
Sold and broken up in 1946.

 

Commands listed for USS Schley (DD 103)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt.Cdr. Joyce Allen Ralph, USN3 Oct 194017 Jul 1941
2Lt.Cdr. John Barrett Taylor, USN17 Jul 194125 Oct 1942
3Horrace Meyers, USN25 Oct 19421 Jan 1944
4Edward Thomas Farley, USNR1 Jan 194418 Jun 1945
5George Thompson Elliman, USNR18 Jun 194515 Sep 1945

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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


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