Allied Warships

USS Osmond Ingram (AVD 9)

Destroyer of the Clemson class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Clemson
Pennant	AVD 9
Mod	Sea plane tender
Built by	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	15 Oct 1918
Launched	28 Feb 1919
Commissioned	28 Jun 1919
End service	8 Jan 1946
History	Originally named Ingram changed to Osmond Ingram on 11 November 1919 Decommissioned on 24 June 1922 Reclassified as sea plane tender AVD-9 on 2 August 1940 Recommissioned on 22 November 1940 Classified back to destroyer DD-255 on 1 December 1943 Reclassified as high speed transport APD-35 on 22 June 1944 Decommissioned on 8 January 1946 Stricken on 21 January 1946 Sold to be broken up for scrap on 17 June 1946
Former name	USS Ingram

Commands listed for USS Osmond Ingram (AVD 9)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Percy Haverly Lyon, USN	22 Nov 1940	10 Dec 1941
2	Lt.Cdr. Paul Chester Treadwell, USN	10 Dec 1941	16 Jul 1942 (1)
3	T/Lt.Cdr. Norman John Sampson, USN	16 Jul 1942	Nov 1943
4	Roger Francis Miller, USNR	Nov 1943	Jan 1945
5	Byron Henry Harris, USNR	Jan 1945	8 Jan 1946

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Notable events involving Osmond Ingram include:

11 May 1943
HMS Upstart (Lt. P.C. Chapman, DSC and Bar, RN) conducted A/S exercises in Lough Foyle with USS Greene (Lt.Cdr. J.S. Lewis, USN), HMS Chanticleer (Lt.Cdr. R.H. Bristowe, DSO, RN), USS Lea (Lt.Cdr. D.I. Thomas, USN) and USS Osmond Ingram (Lt.Cdr. N.J. Sampson, USN).

Upon completion of the exercises Upstart departed Lough Foyle for Holy Loch escorted by HMS Chanticleer. (2)

12 May 1943
HMS H 33 (Lt. J.A. Spender, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with USS Belknap and USS Badger, USS Lea, USS Osmond Ingram and USS Greene. (3)

13 Dec 1943
German U-boat U-172 was sunk on 13 December 1943 in the mid-Atlantic after a 27 hour fight west of the Canary Islands, in position 26°29'N, 29°58'W, by depth charges and Fido homing torpedoes from Avenger and Wildcat aircraft (VC-19) of the American escort carrier USS Bogue and by some 200 depth charges from the US destroyers USS George E. Badger, USS Clemson, USS Osmond Ingram and USS Du Pont.