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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Conner''''' was one of 6 destroyers of the [[Caldwell Class Destroyer (1917)|Caldwell class]].
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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Conner''''' was one of six [[Caldwell Class Destroyer (1917)|''Caldwell'' class destroyers]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].
  
 
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''Conner'' was commissioned on 12 January, 1918 Commander [[Alfred Graham Howe|Alfred G. Howe]] in command.  She took an active part in wartime convoy operations, in July twice helping rescue survivors of submarine attack.
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She would serve in the [[Royal Navy]] in World War II as H.M.S. ''Leeds''.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 02:03, 11 July 2017

U.S.S. Conner (1917)
Hull Number: DD-72
Builder: William Cramp & Sons[1]
Laid down: 16 Oct, 1916[2]
Launched: 21 Aug, 1917[3]
Commissioned: 12 Jan, 1918[4]
Decommissioned: 21 Jun, 1922[5]
Broken up: Mar, 1947[6]
Fate: as H.M.S. Leeds

U.S.S. Conner was one of six Caldwell class destroyers completed for the U.S. Navy.

Service

Conner was commissioned on 12 January, 1918 Commander Alfred G. Howe in command. She took an active part in wartime convoy operations, in July twice helping rescue survivors of submarine attack.

She would serve in the Royal Navy in World War II as H.M.S. Leeds.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 430.
  2. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 430.
  3. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 430.
  4. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 430.
  5. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 430.
  6. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 430.
  7. ↑ Register of Officers, 1922. pp. 40-41.

Bibliography


Caldwell Class Destroyer
  Caldwell Craven Gwin  
  Conner Stockton Manley  
<– Sampson Class Destroyers (US) Wickes Class –>


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