Allied Warships

USS Tattnall (DD 125)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Wickes
Pennant	DD 125
Built by	New York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	1 Dec 1917
Launched	5 Sep 1918
Commissioned	26 Jun 1919
End service	17 Dec 1945
History	Decommissioned at San Diego, California 15 June 15 1922 Recommissioned on 1 May 1930 Reclassified as High Speed Transport APD-19 on 24 July 1943 Decommissioned at Puget Sound on 17 December 1945 Stricken 8 January 1946 Sold 13 November 1946 and scuttled as a breakwater off Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Commands listed for USS Tattnall (DD 125)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. James Robert Pahl, USN	21 Jun 1939	20 May 1940
2	Lewis Merrill Markham, Jr., USN	20 May 1940	11 Jul 1942
3	T/Lt.Cdr. Leo George May, USN	11 Jul 1942	21 Aug 1943
4	William Henry Stewart, USNR	21 Aug 1943	11 Feb 1944
5	Frank Howard Lennox, USNR	11 Feb 1944	29 Jan 1945
6	Benjamin Alfred Habich, USNR	29 Jan 1945	17 Dec 1945

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Notable events involving Tattnall include:

16 Jun 1942
USS Tatnall and USS Erie pick up 93 survivors from the American Lebore that was torpedoed and sunk on 14 June 1942 by German U-boat U-172 about 200 miles north of Cristobal, Panama in position 12°53'N, 80°40'W.

Among these 93 survivors were 49 survivors from the Dutch merchant Crijnssen.