USS Williamson (AVD 2)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Clemson
Pennant	AVD 2
Mod	Sea plane tender
Built by	New York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	27 Mar 1919
Launched	16 Oct 1919
Commissioned	29 Oct 1920
End service	8 Nov 1945
History	In June 1938 she was converted into light seaplane-tender and re-designated as AVP-15 on 1 July 1938. on 2 August 1940 she was reclassified AVD-2 (Mixed escort and seaplane-tender duties), and on 1 December 1943 she was reclassified back to DD-244. She served in various escort duties, and was part of the destroyer-screen off Okinawa in 1945. Decommissioned on 8 November 1945, stricken on 19 December 1945 and sold for scrap on 30 October 1946. USS Williamson was awarded 4 Battle Stars for her services during World War 2.

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	Commander	From	To
1	John Perry, USN	10 Oct 1938	31 Oct 1939 (1)
2	Lt.Cdr. Herbert Edward Regan, USN	31 Oct 1939	20 Jan 1941
3	Lt.Cdr. Frederick Norman Kivette, USN	20 Jan 1941	10 Aug 1942 (1)
4	Lt.Cdr. Evan Edwards Fickling, USN	10 Aug 1942	14 Nov 1942
5	T/Cdr. George Bernard Madden, USN	14 Nov 1942	15 Apr 1943
6	T/Lt. James Arthur Pridmore, USN	15 Apr 1943	1 Sep 1944
7	William Huntington Ayer, USN	1 Sep 1944	8 Nov 1945

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