USS Ellyson (DD-454)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Ellyson |
| Namesake: | Theodore Gordon Ellyson |
| Builder: | Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company |
| Laid down: | 20 December 1940 |
| Launched: | 26 July 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 28 November 1941 |
| Identification: | DD-454 |
| Decommissioned: | 19 October 1954 |
| Reclassified: | DMS-19, 15 November 1944 |
| Fate: | To Japan, 19 October 1954 |
| Struck: | 1 February 1970 |
 Japan
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| Name: | JDS Asakaze |
| Acquired: | 19 October 1954 |
| Identification: | DD-181 |
| Fate: | Returned to U.S., 1970; sold to Republic of China, August 1970 and cannibalized for spare parts |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Gleaves-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,630 tons |
| Length: | 348 ft 3 in (106.15 m) |
| Beam: | 36 ft 1 in (11.00 m) |
| Draft: | 11 ft 10 in (3.61 m) |
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| Speed: | 37.4 knots (69 km/h) |
| Range: | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement: | 16 officers, 260 enlisted |
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USS Ellyson (DD-454/DMS-19), a Gleaves-class destroyer, is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Theodore Gordon Ellyson, a submariner who became the first officer of the U.S. Navy to be designated a naval aviator.
Ellyson was laid down by Federal Shipbuilding of Kearny, New Jersey on 20 December 1940. She was launched on 26 July 1941 sponsored by Miss Gordon Ellyson, daughter of Commander Ellyson, and commissioned on 28 November 1941 with Lieutenant Commander L. B. Rooney in command.
Still outfitting when the United States entered World War II, Ellyson was quickly readied for sea and patrolled in the Atlantic, protecting Allied shipping from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to the West Indies and Panama Canal. On 14 January 1942 she rescued 24 survivors from the sunken Norwegian SS Norness. On 15 June she broke the pennant of Commander, Destroyer Squadron 10, which she was to carry proudly through the war, through the squadron's redesignatian to Mine Division 20 and the subsequent conversion of its destroyers to high-speed minesweepers.
In August 1942 Ellyson began operating with the aircraft carrier Ranger, and remained with her through the landings at Fedhala, French Morocco, on 8 November. After two months of escort duty along the east coast, she rejoined Ranger on two voyages to Casablanca to ferry Army planes to north Africa.
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