USS Lansdale (DD-426)
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| Name: | USS Lansdale (DD-426) |
| Namesake: | Lieutenant Philip Lansdale |
| Builder: | Boston Navy Yard |
| Laid down: | 19 December 1938 |
| Launched: | 30 October 1939 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Ethel S. Lansdale |
| Commissioned: | 17 September 1940 |
| Honors and awards: |
4 Battle Stars |
| Fate: | sunk by enemy action, 20 April 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Benson-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,620 long tons (1,650 t) |
| Length: | 347 ft 11 in (106.05 m) |
| Beam: | 36 ft 1 in (11.00 m) |
| Draft: | 11 ft 9 in (3.58 m) |
| Speed: | 33 kn (38 mph; 61 km/h) |
| Complement: | 191 |
| Armament: | 5 × 5 in (130 mm)/38 cal dual purpose guns, 4 × .50 in (13 mm) machine guns, 8 × 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes, 1 × depth charge thrower |
The second USS Lansdale (DD-426) was a Benson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Philip Lansdale.
Lansdale was laid down on 19 December 1938 by Boston Navy Yard; launched on 30 October 1939; sponsored by Mrs. Ethel S. Lansdale, widow of the ship's namesake; and commissioned on 17 September 1940 at Boston, Massachusetts, Lieutenant Commander John D. Connor in command.
After shakedown in the Caribbean, Lansdale departed Boston on 18 January 1941 for Neutrality patrol duty in the Caribbean. She cruised off Cuba, the Virgin Islands, Martinique, and the British West Indies before returning to Boston on 6 March. After escort training along the Atlantic coast, she screened transports from Charleston, South Carolina, to NS Argentia, Newfoundland, in late June, then departed Argentia on 30 June on a neutrality-patrol run to Iceland. During the remainder of the year, she made three escort runs between Newfoundland and Iceland. En route to Hvalfjörður, Iceland, when the United States entered the war against the Axis, she steamed to Boston from 15–24 December.
Lansdale escorted seven troopships from New York City to Key West from 22–27 January 1942 before arriving Casco Bay, Maine on 1 February to serve as plane guard for the aircraft carrier Wasp. For the next six months, anti-submarine warfare patrols and escort run carried her from the eastern seaboard to Iceland, the Caribbean, the Panama Canal, and the Gulf of Mexico. From 8–21 May, she patrolled the Atlantic between Puerto Rico and Bermuda with the light cruisers Savannah and Juneau, after which she resumed convoy screening out of Norfolk, Virginia.
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