Worden (CG 18) - Naval Cruise Book

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THE FIRST WORDEN ILEFTI, TORPEDO DESTROYER BOAT 16, LAID DOWN ON 13 NOVEMBER 1899, AT SPARROWS POINT, MARYLAND, WAS COMMISSIONED ON 17 MARCH 1903 AND SAW ACTION AS A CONVOY ESCORT IN WW I. SHE WAS DECOMMISSIONED ON 14 JULY 1919. DD-288, THE SECOND WORDEN INOT PICTUREDI WAS COMMISSIONED ON 24 OCTOBER 1920. SHE WAS NEVER CALLED TO BATTLE AND WAS DECOMMISSIONED ON 1 MAY 1930. 2 gg., THE SHIPBUILDERS OF PUGET SOUND NAVY YARD IN BREMERTON, WASHINGTON, LAID THE KEEL FOR THE THIRD WORDEN IABOVEI ON 29 DECEMBER 1932. SHE WAS COMMISSIONED ON 15 JANUARY 1935. THAT WORDEN WAS IN UPKEEP STATUS AT PEARL HARBOR WHEN THE JAPANESE ATTACKED. THE SHIP WAS UNDERWAY FOR THE OPEN SEA WITHIN TWO HOURS AND INSIDE FIVE HOURS SHE HAD DOWNED AN ENEMY PLANE AND DEPTH CHARGED A SUBMARINE CONTACT. THE RECORD OF THE FOLLOWING YEARS IS BEST INDICATED BY HER BATTLE STARS FOR THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY, THE GUADALCANAL-TULAGE LANDINGS AND THE BATTLE OF THE EASTERN SOLOMONS. DD-352 WENT AGROUND IN JANUARY 1943 IN A STROM AND BROKE IN TWO AFTER LANDING TROOPS ON AMCHITKA ISLAND.

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,vw -' -- - U.,- uss WORDEN ICG.-185 USS WORDEN IS NAMED IN HONOR OF REAR ADMIRAL JOHN L. WORDEN, USN, COMMANDER OF THE USS MONITOR IN THE HISTORIC BATTLE OF THE IRONCLADS WHICH TOOK PLACE AT HAMPTON ROADS, VIRGINIA ON 9 MARCH 1862. ADMIRAL WORDEN WAS ORDERED TO THE MONITOR ON 16 JANUARY 1862. AFTER SUPERVISING HER COMPLETION, HE BROUGHT THE MONITORINTO HAMPTON ROADS AND ENGAGED THE CONFEDERATE IRONCLAD VIRGINIA IFORMERLY USS MERRIMACKI IN A NAVAL BATTLE THAT HELPED MAINTAIN THE FEDERAL BLOCKADE OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES AND WHICH ALSO MADE NAVAL HISTORY AS THE FIRST ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN IRONCLADS. f

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EXECUTIVE GFFICERS LCDR MICHAEL J. MOYNAHAM, USN SEPTEMBER 1975 - JULY 1977 W CDR THOMAS L. FERRIER, USN JULY 1977 -