Navy | The US Navy |
Type | Destroyer |
Class | Clemson |
Pennant | DD 247 |
Built by | New York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.) |
Ordered | |
Laid down | 16 Jun 1919 |
Launched | 2 Jun 1920 |
Commissioned | 19 Jan 1921 |
End service | 21 Jul 1945 |
History | Decommissioned 13 January 1931 |
Commands listed for USS Goff (DD 247)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | Lt. Noble Wayne Abrahams, USN | 6 Jun 1939 | 13 Mar 1940 |
2 | Bosquet Neill Wev, USN | 13 Mar 1940 | 21 May 1940 |
3 | Lt.Cdr. William Jefferson Marshall, USN | 21 May 1940 | 15 Dec 1941 |
4 | Lt.Cdr. Olin Perry Thomas, Jr., USN | 15 Dec 1941 | Sep 1942 |
5 | Lt.Cdr. Charles Enright Weakley, USN | Sep 1942 | 5 Jul 1943 |
6 | Hinton Ira Smith, USNR | 5 Jul 1943 | 19 Aug 1944 |
7 | Robert Herman Samek, USNR | 19 Aug 1944 | 21 Jul 1945 |
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Notable events involving Goff include:
24 May 1942
USS Goff picks up 48 survivors from the American tanker Samuel Q. Brown that was torpedoed and sunk the previous day by German U-boat U-103 about 100 miles south of Cape Corrientes, Cuba in position 20°15'N, 84°37'W.
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