USS Cockrill DE 398

USS COCKRILL DE 398

National Archives Photo

Named for Lieutenant Dan Robertson Cockrill, b. 27 March 1914, Nashville, TN;
KIA, wounded when MEREDITH (DD-434) torpedoed 10/15/42
near the Solomons, d. 19 October 1942

Type: FMR
Builder: BST
Keel laid 08/31/43
Launched 10/29/43
Commissioned 12/24/43
First CO: Lt Cdr S. Farnham
Decommissioned 06/21/46
Stricken 08/01/73
Target, sunk off Florida 11/19/74
Unit of CortDiv 51

From the research of Anne McCarthy,
with contributions by Pat Perrella and Pat Stephens, webmaster. March 2006