USS Decatur (DD-341) - Cruises

Cruises

• April - September 1925 - cruised to Samoa, New Zealand, and Australia
• April 1926 - Surveyed Mexican coast
• 28 July 1926 - Embarked Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur at Bremerton, Washington, began official visits to Alaskan ports, returning to Bremerton 6 August 1926
• 14 March 1930 - Arrived in Santiago, Cuba, transporting the Haitian Commission; visited New York and Chesapeake Bay for the Presidential Fleet Review, 19 May
• June 1930 - Returned to West Coast
• 22 February 1937 Arrived at Norfolk for duty with US Fleet Training Detachment; escorted President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Potomac to New Orleans and Texas; served in Midshipman and Naval Reserve training cruises and on Neutrality Patrol along the Eastern Seaboard to Cuba until September 1941
• 14 September 1941 - Arrived at NS Argentia, Newfoundland, served as convoy escort and patrol to ports in Iceland; returned to Boston 17 May 1942
• 4 June – 25 August 1942 - Operated on convoy duty between Norfolk and Key West
• 30 August – 13 October 1942 - Operated on convoy duty between New York and Guantanamo Bay; until 14 January 1943 escorted ships out to sea and to Boston from New York
• 11 February 1943 - Departed for the Mediterranean sailing by way of and returning to Aruba, Netherlands West Indies; made four more voyages from New York and Aruba to the Mediterranean until 1 October
• 24 November 1943 - Sailed from Norfolk in task group centered about Card for an antisubmarine sweep; returned to New York 3 January 1944.
• 26 January – 17 February 1944 - escorted a convoy to Panama, returning with another to Hampton Roads.
• 13 March 1944 - Left Norfolk as flagship of TF 64, escorting a large convoy to Bizerte, Tunisia; March while sailing between Oran and Algiers, the force successfully repelled a coordinated strike of German submarines and planes on 30 March to arrive at its destination 3 April;
• 11 April – 2 May 1944 - Cruised from Bizerte to Boston for brief overhaul and refresher training
• 2 July 1944 - Arrived at Norfolk for escort and training duty in the Caribbean Sea
• 30 June 1945 - Entered Philadelphia Naval Shipyard for inactivation