Allied Warships

USS Lansdowne (DD 486)

Destroyer of the Bristol class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Bristol
Pennant	DD 486
Built by	Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	31 Jul 1941
Launched	20 Feb 1942
Commissioned	29 Apr 1942
End service	2 May 1946
History	Decommissioned 2 May 1946. Stricken 15 August 1949. Transferred to Turkey on 10 June 1949 being renamed Gaziantep. Gaziantep was stricken and scraped in 1973.

Commands listed for USS Lansdowne (DD 486)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. William Renwick Smedberg, 3rd, USN	29 Apr 1942	Feb 1943
2	T/Cdr. Francis Joseph Foley, USN	Feb 1943	24 May 1944
3	T/Cdr. William Squire Maddox, USN	24 May 1944	11 Dec 1944
4	Dave Johnston, Jr., USN	11 Dec 1944	11 Jan 1946

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Notable events involving Lansdowne include:

13 Jul 1942
The depth charge attack made by USS Lansdowne near Colon, Panama, in position 09°46'N, 81°29'W and earlier credited with sinking the German U-boat U-153, was in fact carried out against a non-sub target.

7 Nov 1944
USS Caiman (Cdr. J.B. Azer, USN) conducted exercises off Pearl Harbour together with USS O'Brien (Cdr. W.W. Outerbridge, USN) and USS Lansdowne (Lt.Cdr. W.S. Maddox, USN).