USS Whitney (AD-4)

USS Whitney (AD-4)

The USS Whitney (AD-4) was a United States Navy destroyer tender named for United States Secretary of the Navy William Collins Whitney. She was launched 12 October 1923, and was commissioned on 2 September 1924. She was decommissioned on 22 October 1946, later being sold for scrap to the Dulien Ship Products firm on 18 March 1948.

ee also

*List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy
*US Navy

External links

* [http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/auxil/ad4.htm Detailed history of USS Whitney]
* [http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/w7/whitney.htm Detailed history of USS Whitney]


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