USS Macomb (DD-458)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Macomb |
| Namesake: | William H. and David B. Macomb |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down: | 3 September 1940 |
| Launched: | 23 September 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 26 January 1942 |
| Identification: | DD-458 |
| Reclassified: | DMS-23, 15 November 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 19 October 1954 |
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| Struck: | 1 February 1970 |
 Japan
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| Name: | JDS Hatakaze |
| Acquired: | 19 October 1954 |
| Identification: | DD-182 |
| Fate: | Returned to U.S., 1969; sold to Republic of China, 1970 |
 Taiwan
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| Name: | ROCS Hsien Yang |
| Acquired: | 1970 |
| Decommissioned: | 1974 |
| Struck: | Converted to dockside training ship |
| Identification: | DD-16 |
| Fate: | Cannibalized for spare parts. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Gleaves-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2,230 tons |
| Length: | 348 ft 2 in (106.12 m) |
| Beam: | 36 ft 1 in (11.00 m) |
| Draft: | 15 ft 8 in (4.78 m) |
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| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
| Range: | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement: | 208 |
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USS Macomb (DD-458/DMS-23) was a Gleaves-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Commodore William H. Macomb (1819–1872) and Rear Admiral David B. Macomb (1827–1911).
Macomb was laid down on 3 September 1940 by the Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine and launched on 23 September 1941; cosponsored by Mrs. Ryland W. Greene and her sister, Mrs. Edward H. Chew, granddaughters of Commodore William H. Macomb. The destroyer commissioned on 26 January 1942, Lieutenant Commander W. K. Duvall in command.
Following shakedown, she operated off the east coast escorting convoys and aircraft carriers. These convoy missions took Macomb south to the northern coast of South America, east to the West African coast, and north to Newfoundland. Standing out of Boston on 5 July 1942, Macomb escorted a U.S. Army transport and an English ship to Greenock, Scotland, arriving 12 July. She operated between Scotland and Iceland making one round-trip voyage to New York for availability, until 25 September 1942, when she anchored at Norfolk, Virginia Departing Norfolk on 11 October, she screened aircraft carrier anti-submarine patrols in the Caribbean until heading for the north African coast 7 November. Arriving on the 11th, she acted as carrier screen during the landings at Casablanca and returned to Boston after the landings were secure.
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