USS Borie  (DD-215) (i)   &  USS Borie  (DD-704)  (ii)

Casualty List

Navy US Navy
Type Destroyer
Class Clemson 
Pennant DD 215 
Built by William Cramp and Sons (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) 
Laid down 30 Apr 1919 
Launched 4 Oct 1919 
Commissioned 24 Mar 1920 
  2nd November 1943 27 killed in rescue action. The Borie was finally sank by a 500lb bomb dropped from a TBF Avenger from the Card, piloted by Lt. (jg) Melvin H. Connley

 

USS Borie DD 704 (ii)

Navy US Navy
Type Destroyer
Class Sumner 
Pennant DD 704 
Built by Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.) 
Laid down 29 Feb 1944 
Launched 4 Jul 1944 
Commissioned 21 Sep 1944 
End service 1 Jul 1972 
History  
  9 August 1945 whilst on screening and radar picket duty off Tokyo Bay kamikaze hit  the after bridge structure and killed 48 and wounded 66.
Decommissioned and stricken 1 July 1972.
Transferred to Argentina 1 July 1972 being renamed Hipolito Bouchard.