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DE-185 Riddle
United States Navy destroyer escort
Class Laid down, Shipyard LaunchedCommissioned Disabled and Why
Cannon - 1943/07/29
Federal Shipb. & Drydock Co., Newark, N.J.
1943/10/17 1943/11/17 1950/08/12
sold
Namesake: Ens Joseph Riddle, naval aviator
TTD differences from class:Ms 21
Camouflage: 45: Ms 21


WW II combat actions:
From Till Operation Force Action Source
44/01/19       joinPac - Panama Canal   66 
44/01/19 44/02/01     sail form Panama to P.H.   66 
44/02/01 44/02/10     P.H.   66 
44/02/10 44/02/2?   16.11.6 convoy from P.H. to Marshalls   66 
44/02/2? 44/03/15     Roi-Kwajalein-Majuro - ASW duty   66 
44/03/15 44/03/2?     sail from Marshalls to P.H.   66 
44/04 44/05     escort duty fropm P.H. to Majuro and Manus   66 
44/06       Marshalls, Marianas   66 
44/07/04   Forage 50.17 sinking/share(David W. Taylor) I-10 100 nm ENE of Saipan (15-26N, 147-48E)   66  85 
44/07/1? 44/09/01     Marshalls, Marianas - screening duty   66 
44/08/12       arrived Eniwetok   88 
44/09/01 44/10/04     Seeadler Harbor, Manus   66 
44/10/04 44/10/2? King2 30.8.16     66 
44/11 45/01/0?     Manus   66 
45/01/14       San Pedro Bay, Leyte   66 
45/01/2? 45/02     Marianas, W Carolines   66 
45/02   Detach       78 
45/02 45/03 Detach   Iwojima - AA, ASW, escort duty   66 
45/03/0? 45/03/18     San Pedro Bay, Leyte   66 
45/03/05 45/03/06     Saipan   66 
45/03/06 45/03/0?     sail from Saipan to Leyte   66 
45/03/18 45/04/12 Iceber 51.7.1     66 
45/04/12   Iceber 51.7.1 damage(kami) 15 nm SE of Nakagusuku Bay, Okinawa (26-00N, 128-00E)   66  85 
45/04/12 45/04/16     Kerama Retto - repairs   66 
45/04/16 45/04/2?     escort convoy from Okinawa to Saipan   66 
45/05/01 45/06/15 Iceber   Okinawa - patrol and escort duty   66 
45/06/15 45/06/18     sail from Okinawa to Leyte   66 
45/06/18 45/07/01     San Pedro Bay, Leyte   66 
45/07/02 45/07/04     Leyte - gunfire exercises with Salt Lake City   66 
45/07/05 45/07/19     escort Shamrock Bay from Leyte to Guam > P.H.   66 
45/07/2? 45/09     San Pedro, Cal. - overhaul   66 
50/08/12       sold to France > F-718 Kabyle   66 

Ship status, hull number changes...: 1950/09/26 struck from Navy List
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