USS Lamberton
USS Lamberton underway
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Lamberton |
Namesake | Benjamin P. Lamberton (1844–1912), U.S. Navy admiral |
Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, Virginia |
Laid down | 1 October 1917 |
Launched | 30 March 1918 |
Commissioned | 22 August 1918 |
Decommissioned | 30 June 1922 |
Recommissioned | 15 November 1930 |
Decommissioned | 13 December 1946 |
Reclassified |
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Honors and awards | One battle star for World War II |
Fate | Sold for scrapping 9 May 1947 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,090 tons |
Length | 314 ft 5 in (95.8 m) |
Beam | 31 ft 8 in (9.7 m) |
Draft | 8 ft 8 in (2.6 m) |
Speed | 35 kn (65 km/h) |
Complement | 113 officers and enlisted |
Armament |
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USS Lamberton (DD-119)/(DMS-2) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy in commission from 1918 to 1922 and from 1930 to 1946. She saw service during World War II. She was the only ship named for Benjamin P. Lamberton, a rear admiral who served with Admiral Dewey in the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898 during the Spanish–American War.
Construction and commissioning
Lamberton was
Service history
Pre-World War II
After
Based at San Diego, Lamberton operated along the
Lamberton recommissioned on 15 November 1930, Lieutenant Commander S. N. Moore in command. Operating along the U.S. West Coast, she performed training exercises for nearly two years. She was reclassified as a "miscellaneous auxiliary," AG-21, on 16 April 1932 and was converted to a target-towing ship. From 1933 until 1940 she operated from San Diego towing targets for surface ships, submarines, and aircraft. She also engaged in experimental minesweeping exercises off the U.S. West Coast and was reclassified as a "destroyer minesweeper", DMS-2, on 19 November 1940. The actor Ernest Borgnine served aboard Lamberton until his discharge from the Navy in September 1941.[1][note 1] After arriving at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, on 11 September 1941, Lamberton resumed target towing and anti-submarine warfare (ASW) screening operations in the Hawaiian Islands.
World War II
Lamberton was escorting the heavy cruiser USS Minneapolis (CA-36) to Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, bringing the United States into World War II. Following the attack, she returned to Pearl Harbor to sweep the harbor for mines. For the next seven months she remained on offshore patrol in the Hawaiian Islands.
Departing Pearl Harbor on 11 July 1942, Lamberton steamed north, arriving at
On 9 October 1945 Lamberton was one of 266 vessels damaged by
She later was refloated and returned to duty.Decommissioning and disposal
Lamberton was
.Awards
Lamberton received one
Notes
- ^ Ernest Borgnine soon reenlisted in the U.S. Navy and served during World War II.
- Typhoon Louise.
References
Footnotes
- ^ Wise & Rehill, p. 118.
Bibliography
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- "Typhoons and Hurricanes: Pacific Typhoon at Okinawa, October 1945". Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
- Wise Jr., James E.; Rehill, Anne Collier (1997). Stars in Blue: Movie Actors in America's Sea Services. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-55750-937-6.