Книга: USS Ellet (DD-398): Destroyer, United States Navy, World War II, American Civil War, Charles Ellet, Jr., Alfred W. Ellet

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ellet (DD-398) was launched 11 June 1938 by Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Kearny, New Jersey sponsored by Miss Elvira Daniel Cabell, granddaughter of Colonel Charles Ellet, Jr. and commissioned 17 February 1939, Lieutenant Commander F. J. Mee in command. In September and October 1939 Ellet operated off the Grand Banks on Neutrality Patrol, then with Destroyer Division 18 out of Galveston with the West Gulf Patrol. Based at San Diego, after 26 February 1940, she joined in Battle Force maneuvers as far as Hawaii. In the summer of 1941 her home port became Pearl Harbor and in October she brought home an Army survey expedition from Christmas Island to Honolulu.