Allied Warships

USS Bristol (ii) (DD 857)

Destroyer of the Allen M. Sumner class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Allen M. Sumner
Pennant	DD 857
Built by	Bethlehem Steel Corp. (San Pedro, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered	7 Aug 1942
Laid down	5 May 1944
Launched	29 Oct 1944
Commissioned	17 Mar 1945
End service
History	Decommissioned at an unknown date. Stricken 21 November 1969. Transferred to Taiwan 9 December 1969 being renamed Hua Yang. Hua Yang was stricken and scraped in 1993.

Commands listed for USS Bristol (ii) (DD 857)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Kenneth Pearle Letts, USN	17 Mar 1945

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Notable events involving Bristol (ii) include:

28 Mar 1942
HMS H 50 (Lt. M.L.C. Crawford, DSC, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with HMS Reading (Lt.Cdr. D.V. Clift, RN), HMS Sunflower (Lt.Cdr. J.T. Jones, RD, RNR), HMS Saladin (Lt.Cdr. G.V. Legassick, RNR), HMS Sabre (Lt. R.L. Caple, DSC, RN), USS Bristol, USS Buck and USS Edison. (1)

29 Mar 1942
HrMs O 10 (Lt. J.H. Geijs, RNN) participated in A/S exercises off Lough Foyle together with HMS Dianella (T/Lt. J.G. Rankin, RNR), USS Bristol (Lt.Cdr. C.C. Wood, USN), HMS Kingcup (Lt.Cdr. R.A.D. Cambridge, DSC, RNR) and FFS Roselys. (2)

13 Jun 1945
USS Bristol depart from San Diego bound for Pearl Harbor.

19 Jun 1945
USS Bristol arrived at Pearl Harbor.

29 Jul 1945
USS Bristol arrived at Guam where she joined TG 30.8.

5 Aug 1945
USS Bristol is damaged in a collision with the tanker USS Ashtabula off Iwo Jima in position 29°00'N, 142°00'E.

Bristol sustained damaged to her bow.