Warrington (DD 843) - Naval Cruise Book

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- 1 n-dd ao: 1910 323 3211213311-dd 3832 1943 S I y . at., K - It W K Bad' - . .o-xv, WARRINGTON arrived off Koli Point, Guadalcanal on Novem- ber 6, 1943, joining the second echelon oftroop transports which entered Empress Augusta Bay of Bougainville, Solomon Islands at daybreak of November 8. During the following two years she saw action in the Pacific Theatre, then cleared Hollandia Bay on June 7, 1944, for return to the United States. She entered the New York Navy Yard for repairs upon return then underwent alterations in the Norfolk Navy Yard. On Septl ember 12, 1944, while escorting the refrigerator stores ship HYADES to Panama, WARRINGTON encountered extremel Y heavy weather and sent the following message on all circuits: In distress! Need assistanceflilngineering spaces flooded! Have lost power!Wind of hurricane force! 27-57 N! 73-44 W. On the afternoon of the 13th the order was given to abandon shi . WA 3' ' p RRINGTON capsized and sank with all but 5 officers and ea men. WARRINGTON CDD 383D earned one battie t s ar for her support of the Treasury-Bougainville Operation of November 1943 d ' ' I , an was awarded another for participation in the Western New Guinea Operations of May-June 1944. SO . ga ..a..t,..,- X. 1 The second WAltttlNG'l'ON CDD 3835 was launched onM 153, 1937. With an overall length of 381 feet and a displagemglt of 2 ,130 mns, she was designed to make up to 35 knots and a,.,.O,,.,0date 19 officers and 316 men. Her original armament wnsiswd of ,tight 5-inch .38 caliber guns, two .50f63.8ca1iber guns, and eight 21 -inch torpedo tubes in two quadruple mounts 1 On Dec-ernber 4, 1938, WAR IUNGTON joined Destroyer Divi- u sion 17, of Destroyer Squadron 9 at Newport, Rhode Island, and after cruising to Key West, Florida, served as honor es. Cort for President Franklin D. Roosevelt who embarked in the cruiser HOUSTON on February 18. On June 9, 1939, at Fort Ham-of-k, New Jersey, she manned the rail to receive Their Maiesties King George VI and Queen Mary of England. She 1 was moored in the Charleston Navy Yard when the Japanese g attacked Pearl Harbor. WARRINGTON put to sea the following l day for patrol off the eastern seaboard, then reported for duty , in the Southeast Pacific Force. Operating from Balboa, Panama I Canal Zone, she assisted in guarding merchant, supply and troop 1 ships to the Society Islands, and searched ontanti-submarine t patrol down the western littoral of the Americas to Callao, Peru. 1 P 1 4 i 1 ang X 9 1 1 .4 , X , --xv ...Meagher .Z ,N 'ass-'W 1 1 ' MW, Q, .,.. .,,, , Xu j L' 1 A, 'hw .fa a s K 4 N., V, H 1 IN U 3 .ts-Q . Q1 , ' 1 ,, , 1 1 X ,--- rf , ,, ' t ' ' , ' - X , :af 1. -. .. Wg f ,ffa1a12f,f'-.9,itYffi!i' 5 2 'pw' ' X J , , .Lg-f..'1j.gf , ,. ,,3- iiii , ew' .. gj it .. - 1 , ' wt-f H - A , fi.:-+-frff'4-Wii 3'lJ'w'11 'I tr , D . N-tx, Wiimaglxls -fygginmaliwhrywl ,,., 'Qi' ,A ,'v ,I V, MQ' ,ffggif -,,.,a'4. Y H ,4,.-, awksillil, f L,,,.sai.,....,4 Tiff, 1 ev--st-. M, f -' ,, N' ..., ,,. ,f,..x.,-1-w'v C6pr.' A ,. app: 1. X Mn f f ,, , KN. .J A , f Q, ff A - .. gc Son 1, .,.,,,, , Ev 'A , -.-5.1 4-1.-v f .M g'x'g.:Q t 1 ,,,,,,g,,,,'e54,-fs1t1!f1-14. - fs .aw I as lf, sf V '- W nu., 'Qu--1 if . ,.-,..-ff'fwfMf.n. f V, rug, f' ' QQQX gf .mga .,....-has-'Af-f F fi.-. .sf , 1' M is 3 7 1 uss Warrington-dd 383: 1933 uss Warrington-dd 30: 191