USS Spence (DD-512) [SEP] vessel class
USS Spence (DD-512)
USS "Spence" (DD-512), a Fletcher class destroyer, was laid down on 18 May 1942 by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; launched on 27 October 1942; sponsored by Mrs. Eben Learned; and commissioned on 8 January 1943, Lieutenant Commander H. J. Armstrong in command. The ship was named for Robert T. Spence, superintendent of the construction of USS "Ontario" (1813), and captain of USS "Cyane" (1815).
"Spence"
off Salerno, Italy, 11 September 1943.
USS "Shubrick" (DD-639) seriously damaged by one "kamikaze" aircraft, 29 May 1945, off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, and not repaired after the end of the war.
USS "Sims" (DD-409) sunk by Japanese aircraft during the Battle of the Coral Sea, 7 May 1942.
USS "Spence" (DD-512) capsized during a typhoon in the Philippine Sea, 18 December 1944.
USS "Stewart" (DD-224) captured