USS Herndon (i) (DD 198)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Clemson
Pennant	DD 198
Built by	Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. (Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	25 Nov 1918
Launched	31 May 1919
Commissioned	14 Sep 1920
End service	9 Sep 1940
History	Decommissioned on 6 June 1922 On 13 September 1930 the ship was loaned to the US Coast guard as USS CG-17 and returned on 28 May 1934 Recommissioned on 4 December 1939 and transferred to the Royal Navy on 9 September 1940.
Career notes	to Britain as HMS Churchill (I 45)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt. John Alden Webster, USN	4 Dec 1939	9 Sep 1940

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