Destroyer
Tons
16,000
Dimensions
306 / 36' / 13"
Crew
186
(WWII) Armament
2 x 5" Guns
38 x 40mm
10 x 20mm
3 x torpedos
Hedgehog
8K guns
2 Depth charge racks
Ship
History
Built
at the Boston Ship Yard begining on November 3, 1943 and launched
on March 23 1944, and named in honor of Ensign Victor Allen
Lewis. In November 10, 1944, She departed for the Pacific area
by the way of the Panama Canal.
WWII Service
Christmas 1944 was spent in Pearl Harbor, then it
was off to Anti-submarine escort duty with a variety of convoys,
including Task Group 50-8 during the Iwo Jima campaign. From
there it was Radar pickett duty against the Kamakazi attacks
during the Okinawa Campaign. She departed Pearl Harbor for home
in November 1945, where She was assigned to the 9th Fleet until
her decommissioning in May 1946.
Post War Service
Pulled out of moth ball, the ship also served in the Korean
war, off Korea and patrols off Guam, and then "Project
Nekton" for deep water research in the Marianias Trench.
Decommissioned in May 1960. In March 1966, She was towed out
as a target ship and sunk off Mare Island.
