Ships built in Maine

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 205. Chapters: USS Taylor (DD-468), USS Barry (DD-933), USS Congress (1799), USS Sailfish (SS-192), USS Worden (CG-18), USS Wainwright (CG-28), USS Atule (SS-403), USS Wadsworth (DD-516), USS Biddle (CG-34), USS Bowfin (SS-287), PNS Ghazi, USS Bausell (DD-845), USS Balao (SS-285), USS Laffey (DD-724), USS Volador (SS-490), USS Abbot (DD-629), USS Halibut (SS-232), USS McDougal (DD-54), USS Benner (DD-807), USS Trout (SS-202), USS Thresher (SSN-593), USS Hanson (DD-832), USS Aroostook (1861), USS Walke (DD-723), USS Terrell County (LST-1157), USS Sea Devil (SS-400), USS Triton (SS-201), USS Terry (DD-513), USS Walker (DD-517), USS Picuda (SS-382), BAP Pacocha (SS-48), USS Sculpin (SS-191), USS Archer-Fish (SS-311), USS Leahy (DLG-16), USS Warrington (DD-843), USS Wickes (DD-75), USS Narwhal (SS-167), USS Fiske (DD-842), USS Tom Green County (LST-1159), USS Tench (SS-417), USS Wadleigh (DD-689), USS O'Bannon (DD-450), USS Agerholm (DD-826), USS Sea Dog (SS-401), USS Nicholas (DD-449), USS Bang (SS-385), USS Woolsey (DD-437), USS Terrebonne Parish (LST-1156), USS Threadfin (SS-410), USS Isabel (PY-10), USS Thornback (SS-418), HMS Campbeltown (I42), USS Thomas E. Fraser (DM-24), USS Tigrone (SS-419), USS Flying Fish (SS-229), USS Seawolf (SS-197), USS Vedette (SP-163), USS Southerland (DD-743), USS Thatcher (DD-514). Excerpt: USS Taylor (DD/DDE-468) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Rear Admiral William Rogers Taylor (1811-1889). She was laid down on 28 August 1941 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works Corp.; launched on 7 June 1942, sponsored by Mrs. H. A. Baldridge; and commissioned on 28 August 1942 at the Charlestown Navy Yard near Boston, Mass., Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Katz in command. Taylor was the first destroyer to anchor in Japanese coastal waters at the end of World War II - one that, wrote Admiral William F. Halsey, "admirably performed every mission assigned to her." Taylor began her naval career with the Atlantic Fleet. Assigned to Destroyer Squadron 20 (DesRon 20), the destroyer trained at Casco Bay, Maine, and made her shakedown cruise in the northern Atlantic before beginning duty as a coastwise convoy escort. The latter duty lasted until mid-November when she escorted a transatlantic convoy to a point just off Casablanca. The transit was uneventful, save for the interception of a Spanish merchantman, SS Darro. A boarding party from Taylor sent the neutral ship off to Gibraltar to prevent her from transmitting information about the convoy to the enemy. Taylor returned to the United States at Norfolk early in December and remained there until mid-month. On 17 December, the warship cleared Hampton Roads in company with Task Force 13 (TF 13) on her way to duty in the Pacific. After transiting the Panama Canal and stopping at Tutuila in the Samoan Islands, the destroyer reported at Noumea, New Caledonia, on 20 January 1943 for duty in the South West Pacific Area. From Nouméa, Taylor continued west to Efate in the New Hebrides group, entering Havannah Harbor on the 26th. There, she became a unit of DesRon 21's Destroyer Division 41 (DesDiv 41), one of two four-destroyer divisions screening Rear Admiral Robert C. Giffen's TF 18, comprising three heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, and two escort carriers. On 27 January, Taylor cleared