Allied Warships

USS Tarbell (DD 142)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Wickes
Pennant	DD 142
Built by	William Cramp and Sons (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	31 Dec 1917
Launched	28 May 1918
Commissioned	27 Nov 1918
End service	20 Jul 1945
History	Decommissioned at San Diego, California on 8 June 1922 Recommissioned on 29 May 1930 Decommissioned in late 1936 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Recommissioned on 4 October 1939 Decommissioned at Philadelphia on 20 July 1945 Stricken 13 August 1945 Sold 30 November 1945 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Tarbell (DD 142)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Edward White Rawlins, USN	4 Oct 1939	21 Mar 1941
2	Lt. Solomon David Willingham, USN	21 Mar 1941	20 May 1942 (1)
3	T/Lt.Cdr. Walter Manley Foster, USN	20 May 1942	4 Nov 1943
4	Howard Martin Payne, USNR	4 Nov 1943	15 Jun 1944
5	Lt.Cdr. Charles Alfred Berry, USNR	15 Jun 1944	20 Jul 1945

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Notable events involving Tarbell include:

26 Mar 1942
USS Tarbell picks up 22 survivors of the American tanker Dixie Arrow that was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-71 12 nautical miles off the Diamond Shoals Lighted Buoy in position 34°55'N, 75°02'W.

15 May 1942
USS Tarbell picks up 25 survivors of the American merchant Lammot Du Pont that was torpedoed and sunk on 23 April 1942 by German U-boat U-125 500 nautical miles south-east of Bermuda in position 27°10'N, 57°10'W. Three of these survivors later died in hospital.

4 Jun 1942
USS Tarbell picks up 30 survivors of the American tanker M.F. Elliott that was torpedoed and sunk the previous day by German U-boat U-502 about 150 nautical miles north-west of Trinidad in position 12°04'N, 63°49'W.

9 Sep 1942
USS R-12 (Lt. E.E. Shelby, USN) participated in A/S exercises of Guantanamo Bay together with USS Chevalier (Lt.Cdr. E.R. McLean, Jr., USN), USS Jenkins (Lt.Cdr. F.H. Miller, USN) and USS Tarbell (Lt.Cdr. W.M. Foster, USN).