USS Renshaw DD499
Navy | US Navy |
Type | Destroyer |
Class | Fletcher |
Pennant | DD 499 |
Built by | Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.) |
Laid down | 7 May 1942 |
Launched | 13 Oct 1942 |
Commissioned | 5 Dec 1942 |
Decommissioned | 14 Feb 1947 |
Recommissioned | June 1950. |
Decommissioned and stricken | 14 February 1970 |
End service | October 1970 |
History |
Torpedoed 21 February 1945,While
on convoy duty in the Mindanao Sea
killing 18 crew. Reclassified as DDE-499 on 26 March 1949 Reverted back to DD-499 30 June 1962 Sold in October 1970 and broken up for scrap |