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USS ''Warrington'' (DD-383) — a — was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Lewis Warrington, who was an officer in the Navy during the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812. He also temporarily served as the Secretary of the Navy. The second ''Warrington'' was laid down on 10 October 1935 at Kearny, New Jersey, by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company; launched on 15 May 1937; sponsored by Miss Katherine Taft Chubb; and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 9 February 1938, Commander Leighton Wood in command. After several years of service in the Pacific theater during World War II, ''Warrington'' was sunk by the 1944 Great Atlantic hurricane off the Bahamas on 13 September 1944. ==Inter-war period== Following a shakedown cruise to the West Indies in April–May, the destroyer returned to New York City on 24 May, underwent post-shakedown availability, and then conducted tactical training off Cape Cod and the Virginia Capes. She also participated in maneuvers with the boats of Submarine Division 4 (SubDiv 4) in waters near New London. In October, she headed south for refresher training in Cuban waters. On 4 December, the warship headed north to Newport, Rhode Island, where she became a unit of DesDiv 17, DesRon 9. ''Warrington'' operated along the East Coast and made a cruise to the Caribbean in a task group built around the aircraft carriers and to participate in Fleet Problem XX. In mid-February 1939, she reported to Key West to serve as an escort for , the cruiser in which president Franklin D. Roosevelt and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral William D. Leahy embarked to observe the concluding phase of the 1939 annual Fleet exercise. The destroyer concluded that assignment upon her arrival at Charleston, South Carolina, on 3 March where Roosevelt and Leahy left ''Houston'' to return to Washington. After three months of operations along the coast between New York and Norfolk, Virginia, the destroyer moored at Fort Hancock, New Jersey, on the morning of 9 June to embark King George VI and Queen Mary of Great Britain for passage to Manhattan. ''Warrington'' departed Norfolk on 26 June, transited the Panama Canal on 3 July and arrived in her new home port, San Diego, soon thereafter. Assigned to the Battle Force, United States Fleet, the destroyer conducted operations along the California coast for the next nine months. At the beginning of April 1940, she departed San Diego with the ships of Battle Force to participate in Fleet Problem XXI, conducted in Hawaiian waters. Though nominally retaining San Diego as her home port, ''Warrington'' was based at Pearl Harbor for most of her remaining peacetime service. From April 1940 to April 1941, she returned to the West Coast only twice: once in June 1940 for repairs after the conclusion of the Fleet exercise and again in late November and early December of that year. After 12 months of training out of Pearl Harbor, frequently with submarines engaged in torpedo practice, ''Warrington'' departed Hawaii on 18 April 1941 to augment the forces engaged in the so-called "Neutrality Patrol". After passing back through the Panama Canal on 7 May, she continued on to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. There, she became part of a patrol force composed of the cruisers , , and destroyer . Her area of operations encompassed the eastern Caribbean and the western Atlantic from the West Indies south to about 12° south latitude. In addition to patrolling, she later began intermittent escort duties; and, in fact, her last assignment during the "Neutrality Patrol" period consisted of a voyage in company with the cruiser to escort SS ''Acadia'' from Recife, Brazil, to Puerto Rico. She arrived at San Juan on 3 November; then headed north for a two-day visit at Norfolk; and entered the Charleston Navy Yard on the 9th for repairs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Warrington (DD-383)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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