USS Lamberton (DMS 2)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Wickes
Pennant	DMS 2
Mod	High speed minesweeper
Built by	Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. (Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	1 Oct 1917
Launched	30 Mar 1918
Commissioned	22 Aug 1918
End service	13 Dec 1946
History	Decommissioned on 30 June 1922. Recommissioned on 15 November 1930. Reclassified as Light target AG-21 on 16 April 1932. Reclassified as High Speed Minesweeper DMS-2 on 19 November 1940. Decommissioned on 13 December 1946. Stricken on 28 January 1947. Sold to be broken up for scrap on 9 May 1947.

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and that we only list Commanding Officers for the duration of the Second World War.

	Commander	From	To
1	William Lewis Benson, USN	21 Jun 1939	15 Jul 1941 (1)
2	Lt.Cdr. William John O'Brien, USN	15 Jul 1941	1 Aug 1942 (1)
3	T/Lt. Howard Weldie Baker, USN	1 Aug 1942	1 Dec 1942
4	T/Cdr. Baxter Morrison McKay, USN	1 Dec 1942	15 Jan 1944
5	Charles Raymond Calhoun, Jr., USN	15 Jan 1944	1 Aug 1944
6	Edward Revis Hunt, USNR	1 Aug 1944	13 Dec 1945

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