Allied Warships

USS Stringham (APD 6)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Wickes
Pennant	APD 6
Mod	High speed transport
Built by	Fore River Shipbuilding Co. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	17 Sep 1917
Launched	30 Mar 1918
Commissioned	2 Jul 1918
End service	9 Nov 1945
History	Decommissioned at Philadelphia 2 June 2 1922 Stringham was moved to Norfolk and converted into a high speed transport and reclassified APD-6 on 2 August 1940 Recommissioned as high speed tansport 11 December 1940 Reclassified to DD-83 22 June 1945 Decommissioned at Philadelphia 9 November 1945 Stricken 5 December 1945 Sold and broken up for scrap in 1946.

Commands listed for USS Stringham (APD 6)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Donald Cord Varian, USN	11 Dec 1940	10 Mar 1942 (1)
2	Lt.Cdr. Clarence Evans Boyd, USN	10 Mar 1942	25 Nov 1942
3	T/Cdr. Adolphe Wildner, USN	25 Nov 1942	11 Feb 1943
4	T/Cdr. Joseph Aloysius McGoldrick, USN	4 Mar 1943	15 May 1943
5	Lt.Cdr. Ralph Henning Moureau, USNR	15 May 1943	13 Sep 1944 (1)
6	John Boone Schley, USNR	13 Sep 1944	10 Nov 1945

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Notable events involving Stringham include:

19 Mar 1942
USS Stringham picks up 32 survivors from the American tanker Papoose that was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-124 about 15 nautical miles south-west of Cape Lookout in position 34°17'N, 76°39'W.