DD-602 Meade
United States Navy destroyer
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Class | Laid down, Shipyard | Launched | Commissioned | Disabled and Why | |
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Bristol | 1941/03/25 Bethlehem Steel Co., Staten Is., N.Y. | 1942/02/15 | 1942/06/22 | 1971
scrap | |
Namesake: RAdm Richard Worsam Meade (*1837/10/08, +1897/05/04) - CO Louisville 1862, CO North Atlantic Squadron 1894 | |||||
TTD differences from class: | |||||
Camouflage: 42: Ms 12/Mod, 43: Ms 21, 44: Ms 32/?? |
WW II combat actions:
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From | Till | Operation | Force | Action | Source |
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42/08/28 |   |   |   | joinPac |   |
42/08/28 | 42/09/14 |   |   | escort Washington from Panama to Tongatabu |   66  |
42/11/13 | 42/11/14 |   |   | off Guadalcanal screen AG Kopara, YT-130 |   66  |
42/11/15 |   |   |   | shell Guadalcanal coast |   |
42/11/15 |   |   |   | lifeguard from Preston, Walke after xGuad |   66  |
42/11/18 |   |   |   | search for Jumeau survivors |   66  |
42/11/22 | 42/12/18 |   |   | escort AT-64 Navajo during salvage operations |   66  |
42/12/2? | 43/01/0? |   |   | escort damaged Portland to Sydney, then Minneapolis to New Hebrides |   66  |
43/01/29 | 43/01/30 |   | 18 | xRennel |   |
43/02/14 | 43/02/19 |   |   | Efate |   81  |
43/03/10 | 43/03/15 |   |   | Efate |   88  |
43/03/18 | 43/04/15 |   |   | sail form Solomons to Aleutians |   66  |
43/04/15 | 43/08 |   |   | Aleutians |   66  |
43/05/11 | 43/06/02 | Landcr | 51.1 | land Attu |   81  |
43/08/02 |   |   | 16.6 | shell Kiska |   85  |
43/08/12 |   |   | 16.6.1 | shell Kiska |   85  |
43/09?? | 43/10?? |   |   | PSNY - overhaul |   66  |
43/10/1? | 43/10/29 |   |   | sail from Puget Sound to Wellington, New Zaeland |   66  |
43/11/13 | 43/12/07 | Galvan | 53.4.2 |   |   |
43/11/22 |   | Galvan | 53.4.2 | sinking/share(Frazier) I-35 (01-25' N., 174-40' E.) |   70  |
43/12/07 | 44/01/22 |   |   | P.H. - training |   66  |
44/01/22 | 44/02/18 | Flint | 52.8.2 |   |   |
44/02/18 | 44/02/24 |   |   | sail from Majuro to P.H. |   66  |
44/03/02? | 44/03/08 |   |   | sail from P.H. to Majuro |   66  |
44/03/18 |   |   | 50.10 | shell Mili Atoll |   66  |
44/03/22 | 44/04/06 | Desec1 | 58 |   |   66  |
44/04/13 | 44/05/0? | Reckle | 58 |   |   66  |
44/05/12 | 45/07/10 |   |   | Majuro area - call fire, FS, blockade - against Wotje, Mili, Maloelap |   66  |
44/05/17 |   |   |   | shell (with Frazier) Eniben Is, Maloelap Atoll |   85  |
44/07/11 | 44/07/28 |   |   | sail form Majuro to P.H. > Mare Island |   66  |
44/07/28 | 44/09/1? |   |   | MINY - overhaul |   66  |
44/09/20 | 44/12/01 |   |   | P.H. - training duty for Pacific Fleet Torpedo & Gunnery School |   66  |
44/12/01 | 44/12/09 |   |   | escort Wisconsin from P.H. to Ulithi |   66  |
44/12/15 | 44/12/19 |   |   | escort 2 merchants from Ulith to Marshalls |   66  |
44/12/25 | 45/01/16 |   |   | 2 escort runs between Eniwetok and Guam |   66  |
45/01/21 | 45/01/28 |   |   | sail from Marshalls to Ulithi > Leyte |   66  |
45/02/08 | 45/02/13 |   | DesDiv27 | escort LSTs and merchants from Leyte to Mindoro > Subic Bay > Lingayen |   66  |
45/02/13 | 45/05 |   |   | Lingayen Gulf - ASW, AA patrol duty |   66  |
45/05/05 | 45/05/08 |   |   | San Pedro Bay, Leyte |   66  |
45/05/08 | 45/05/17 |   | 78.3 | land Macalajar Bay, Mindanao |   66  |
45/05/20 | 45/07/09 |   |   | esocrt runs from Leyte to S Philippines |   66  |
45/08/1? | 45/08/31 |   |   | Subic Bay, Luzon |   66  |
45/08/31 | 45/09/09 |   |   | sail from Subic Bay to Okinawa and back |   66  |