file created: 12/07/02 00:15:33 , last update: 07/26/02
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DD-484 Buchanan
United States Navy destroyer
Class Laid down, Shipyard LaunchedCommissioned Disabled and Why
Bristol . .
Federal Shipb. & Drydock Co., Kearny, N.J.
1941/11/22 1942/03/21 1949/04/28
sold
Namesake: Adm Franklin Buchanan *1800/09/17, + 1874/05/11 Confederated Navy, 1864 POW
TTD differences from class:
Camouflage: 42-43: Ms 12/Mod, 43: Ms 21, 44: Ms 31/3d, 45: Ms 22
WW II combat actions:
From Till Operation Force Action Source
41/12/07     AtlFlt/DesFlot4/DesRon12/DesDiv23 at building yard   114 
42/06       joinPac  
42/08   Watch 62.4 land Guadalcanal   67  81 
42/08/09   Watch 62.4 xSavo   81 
42/08/1? 42/08/1?     escort AO Cimarron to refuel TF 61, then put to Efate   66 
42/08/23 42/08/27   18/screen/DesRon12 xEasSol  
42/10/02     64.2 land Funafuti   66 
42/10/07 42/10/11   64.2/DesRon12/DesDiv2 xEsper  
42/10/31 42/11/08   65.4 Guadalcanal reinforcement   81 
42/11/10 42/11/12   67.4 Guadalcanal reinforcement   81 
42/11/12       damage(USfire) off Guadalcanal escorting convoy to Esp. Santo  
42/12 43/03     Solomons - convoy escort duty   66 
43/02/13       Noumea   81 
43/03       Sydney - leave   66 
43/03/08 43/03/10   15 combined training operations with TF 19   88 
43/04/30     15 damage(run aground) S of Guadalcanal   66 
43/05 43/06     Esp. Santo - repairs   66 
43/06/21 43/06/27     Efate   88 
43/06/30 43/07/13 Toena 31.2.1    
43/07/11 43/07/12   36.9 shell Munda   88 
43/07/12 43/07/13   36.1/DesRon12 xKolomb (damage - collision with Woodworth)   66 
43/07/2?       Noumea - repairs   66 
43/08/05 43/08/07     Esp. Santo   88 
43/08/07 43/08/17     out of Esp. Santo   88 
43/08/17 43/08/18     Esp. Santo   88 
43/08/27 43/08/30     Esp. Santo   88 
43/08/30 43/09/02?   37/DesRon12 tactical exercises with TF 38 and TF 39 out of Esp. Santo   88 
43/10/16 43/10/24     Esp. Santo   88 
43/10/28 43/10/30     Port Purvis, Tulagi   88 
43/10/31 43/11/11 Shoe2 38/DesRon12/DesDiv23 land Cape Torokina   66  104 
43/11/19 43/11/21     Port Purvis, Tulagi   88 
43/12/19 43/12/20     Esp. Santo   88 
44/01/08 44/01/10   38 shell Shortland   66 
44/01/13 44/02/13   DesRon12 Bougainville area - gunfire, escort and training duty   66 
44/01/22       sinking RO-37 130 nm ESE of San Cristobal en route from Tulagi to Esp. Santo   85 
44/02/13 44/02/18   38/DesRon12 land Green Is   66 
44/02/25     38/DesRon12 sinking/share AK Tacugiko Maru (6800 BRT) 20 miles N of New Hanover (02-46N, 150-42E)   85 
44/02/25     38/DesRon12 shell Kavieng - damaged by shore battery (02-20S, 151-02E)   85 
44/03/22 44/04/0?   35.6 escort convoy from Guadalcanal to P.H.   66 
44/04/22 44/06??     MINY - overhaul   66  88 
44/08/25 44/09/06     Port Purvis, Tulagi   88 
44/09/06 44/10/14 Stale2 32 land Palau   66 
44/11/10       Denges Passage, Palaus   81 
44/12/01 44/12/24 Love3 38 land Mindoro  
44/12/18     38 damage(typhoon)   66 
44/12/2? 45/01/0?     repairs   66 
44/12/30 45/01/25 Mike1 38     66 
45/02/10 45/03/04 Detach 58     66 
45/03/14 45/05/28 Iceber 58     66 
45/05/28 45/06/13 Iceber 38     66 
45/07/01 45/08/2?   38 raid Home Is.   66 
45/08/29       entered Tokio Bay escorting South Dakota   66 
45/09/01       carry Adm Nimitz & Halsey to Yokohama to conference with Gen MacArthur   66 
45/09/02       deliver Gen MacArtur to Missouri to accept surrender   66 
45/09/02       Tokio Bay - surrender ceremony   81 
49/04/28       sold to Turkey > Gelibolu  

Ship status, hull number changes...:
Ship score (awards, enemy ships credited...): 16 Battle Stars, PUC
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