Allied Warships

USS Hamilton (DMS 18)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Wickes
Pennant	DMS 18
Mod	High speed minesweeper
Built by	Mare Island Navy Yard (Vallejo, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	8 Jun 1918
Launched	15 Jan 1919
Commissioned	7 Nov 1919
End service	16 Oct 1945
History	Decommissioned on 20 July 1922 Recommissioned on 20 January 1930 Reclassified high speed minesweeper DMS-18 on 11 October 1941 Reclassified AG-111 on 5 June 1945 Decommissioned 16 October 1946 Stricken on 1 November 1945 Sold on 21 November 1946 and broken up for scrap

Commands listed for USS Hamilton (DMS 18)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt. Thomas Cockey Evans, USN	10 May 1938	17 Jul 1940 (1)
2	Lt. Harold Melvin Briggs, USN	17 Jul 1940	21 Jan 1941
3	Lt.Cdr. Harold Oscar Larson, USN	21 Jan 1941	19 Jun 1942
4	T/Lt.Cdr. Robert Roy Sampson, USN	19 Jun 1942	30 Jun 1944 (1)
5	T/Lt.Cdr. John Clague, USNR	30 Jun 1944	13 Jul 1945
6	Lyle Howard Turner, USNR	13 Jul 1945	16 Oct 1945

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Notable events involving Hamilton include:

5 Apr 1942
USS Hamilton picks up 25 survivors from the American tanker Byron D. Benson that was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-552 off Currituck Inlet, North Carolina in position 36°08'N, 75°32'W.