USS Rodman (DMS-21)

History
United States
Name:	USS Rodman
Namesake:	Hugh Rodman
Builder:	Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Laid down:	16 December 1940
Launched:	26 September 1941
Commissioned:	29 April 1942
Identification:	DD-456
Reclassified:	DMS-21, 16 December 1944
Decommissioned:	28 July 1955
Fate:	Transferred to Taiwan, 28 July 1955
Struck:	1 November 1972
Taiwan
Name:	ROCS Hsien Yang
Acquired:	28 July 1955
Identification:	DD-16
Fate:	ran aground, c. 1969; name and pennant number reassigned to former USS Macomb (DD-458); expended for film purposes in 1976
General characteristics
Class and type:	Gleaves-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,630 tons
Length:	348 ft 4 in (106.17 m)
Beam:	36 ft (11 m)
Draft:	17 ft 5 in (5.31 m)
Propulsion:	50,000 shp (37,000 kW); Westinghouse geared turbines 4 boilers; 2 propellers
Speed:	37 knots (69 km/h)
Range:	6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)   (12,000 km at 22 km/h)
Complement:	16 officers, 260 enlisted
Armament:	(original) 4 × 5 in (127 mm) DP guns, 1 × 1.1 in (28 mm) quad gun, 6 × 0.5 in (12.7 mm) guns, 6 × 20 mm AA guns, 10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 2 × depth charge tracks

USS Rodman (DD-456/DMS-21), a Gleaves-class destroyer, is the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Admiral Hugh Rodman.

Rodman was laid down on 16 December 1940 by the Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Kearny, New Jersey and launched on 26 September 1941; sponsored by Mrs. Albert K. Stebbins, Jr., grandniece of Admiral Rodman. The destroyer was commissioned on 27 January 1942, Commander William Giers Michelet in command.

Following shakedown, Rodman, assigned to Task Force 22 (TF 22), alternated training and patrol duties at NS Argentia, Newfoundland with screening and plane guard services for the aircraft carrier Ranger as that carrier trained aviation personnel along the northeast U.S. coast and ferried planes of the Army's 33rd Pursuit Squadron to Accra on the Gold Coast from 22 April to 28 May 1942. Detached in June, she departed Newport 1 July, escorted a seven-troopship convoy to the Firth of Clyde, then continued on to Orkney where, as a unit of TF 99, she commenced operations with the British Home Fleet. Based at Scapa Flow into August, she alternated patrols from Scotland and Iceland to protect the southern legs of the PQ/QP convoy lanes between those two countries and the north Russian ports of Murmansk and Archangel. With the long summer days, however, the U-boats and Norwegian based Luftwaffe units continued to exact a heavy toll. In early July, they destroyed Convoy PQ-17. Further convoys were postponed until the relative cover of the Arctic winter darkness could be regained.

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