USS Guest

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USS Guest
History
United States
NameGuest
NamesakeJohn Guest
BuilderBoston Navy Yard
Laid down27 September 1941
Launched20 February 1942
Commissioned15 December 1942
Decommissioned4 June 1946
Stricken1 August 1973
FateTransferred to Brazil, 5 June 1959
History
Brazil
NamePara (D27)
Acquired5 June 1959
Stricken1978
FateSunk as target 23 February 1983
General characteristics
Class and typeFletcher-class destroyer
Displacement2,050 tons
Length376 ft 6 in (114.7 m)
Beam39 ft 8 in (12.1 m)
Draft17 ft 9 in (5.4 m)
Propulsion60,000 shp (45 MW); 2 propellers
Speed35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Range6500 nmi. (12,000 km) at 15 kt
Complement336
Armament

USS Guest (DD-472), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Commodore John Guest (1822–1879).

Guest was

Boston Naval Shipyard; sponsored by Mrs. Ann Guest Walsh, granddaughter of Com. Guest; commissioned 15 December 1942, Commander Henry Crommelin
in command. Guest decommissioned in 1946 and was transferred on loan to the Brazilian Navy in 1959, where she served as Pará (D27). She was stricken in 1979 and was sunk as a target ship in 1983.

1943

After shakedown training at

torpedo planes which attacked her convoy. She silenced Japanese coastal defense guns at Motupene Point, Bougainville, 4 December 1943, and bombarded the Saba River
area 25 January 1944.

1944

Guest protected transports landing the

Green Islands 15 February 1944. She bombarded Kavieng, New Ireland 25 February, and the Sanba River area on Bougainville 17 March. She rescued the crew of PT-63 on the latter date. In a case of mistaken identity on 17 March motor torpedo boat PT-283 was sunk by friendly fire from destroyer Guest (DD-472), in the Solomons, near Choseul Island. Her 5-inch gunfire destroyed the grounded Japanese freighter Meisyo Maru 30 April to the east of Nemto Island. After amphibious assault training in the New Hebrides, she departed from Roi, in the Marshall Islands, 10 June 1944 for the invasion and capture of the Mariana Islands
.

Guest poured gunfire ahead of troops landing on Saipan 15 June 1944, then helped repel four massive air raids against Admiral Marc Mitscher's Fast Carrier Task Force in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. She also conducted pre-invasion bombardment of Guam and gave direct gunfire support to the landings on Guam 21 July 1944. She remained on bombardment support and patrol stations until 9 August, then sailed for amphibious warfare exercises in the Solomons.

Guest departed

Palau Islands 12 September 1944. The following day she rescued 7 officers and 45 men of destroyer Perry (DMS-17), which hit a mine and sank off Anguar. Guest departed the area 25 September and entered San Francisco Bay
25 October 1944 for overhaul.

1945

Overhaul was followed by training in Hawaiian waters until 27 January 1945 when she departed with a task group bound via the

Philippine Islands
.

Guest departed San Pedro Bay 27 March to guard escort carriers giving direct support to the

Honshū, she returned via Adak to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
15 November 1945.

Guest decommissioned at

San Diego
4 June 1946 and remained in reserve until transferred 5 June 1959 on loan to the government of Brazil.

Brazilian service

For other ships with the same name, see Brazilian ship Pará.

The ship served in the

Ceará (S 14) in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil approximately 80 nautical miles (148 km) south of Cabo Frio lighthouse.[1][2]

Honors

Guest received eight

battle stars for service in World War II
.

References

  1. ^ "CT Pará – D 27". naviosbrasileiros.com.br. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  2. ^ navsource.org USS GUEST (DD-472)

External links

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