Allied Warships

USS Phelps (DD 360)

Destroyer of the Porter class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Porter
Pennant	DD 360
Built by	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	2 Jan 1934
Launched	18 Jul 1935
Commissioned	26 Feb 1936
End service	24 Jun 1946
History	Decommissioned 24 June 1946 Stricken 28 January 1947 Sold 10 August 1947 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Phelps (DD 360)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Cdr. Harold Biesemeier, USN	10 Jun 1938	6 Jun 1940 (1)
2	Cdr. Albert MacQueen Bledsoe, USN	6 Jun 1940	Oct 1941 (1)
3	Lt.Cdr. Edward Louis Beck, USN	Oct 1941	4 Nov 1942 (1)
4	T/Cdr. Bruce Edward Scofield Trippensee, USN	4 Nov 1942	13 Mar 1943
5	T/Cdr. John Ellis Edwards, USN	13 Mar 1943	14 Dec 1943 (1)
6	Lt.Cdr. David Louis Martineau, USN	14 Dec 1943	26 Aug 1944 (1)
7	Robert Broussard Erly, USN	26 Aug 1944	6 Nov 1945 (1)

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Notable events involving Phelps include:

8 May 1942
During the Battle of the Coral Sea USS Phelps (Lt.Cdr. E.L. Beck) was ordered to sink the badly damaged US aircraft carrier USS Lexington with torpedoed in position 15°12'S, 155°27'E.

17 Mar 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. McCrea, USN) departed Majoro Atoll as part of Task Group 50.10 which was to bombard Milli Island. The other ships of the task force were battleship USS New Jersey (Capt. C.F. Holden, USN) and destroyers USS Dewey (Lt.Cdr. R.G. Copeland, USN), USS Hull (Lt.Cdr. C.W. Consolvo, USN), USS MacDonough (Cdr. J.W. Ramey, USN) and USS Phelps (Lt.Cdr. D.L. Martineau, USN). Air cover was provided by fleet carrier USS Lexington (Capt. F.B. Stump, USN) escorted by destroyers USS Bancoft (Cdr. R.M. Pitts, USN), USS Meade (Cdr. J. Munholland, USN) and USS Edwards (Cdr. P.G. Osler, USN).

For the daily positions of USS Iowa during this operation see the map below.

1 May 1945
USS R-1 (Lt. W.A. Schoenfeld, USN) conducted A/S exercises off Casco Bay, Maine together with USS Clark (Lt.Cdr. R.H. Hopkins, USNR) and USS Phelps (Lt.Cdr. R.B. Erly, USN).