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	USS Spence (DD-512)
		Spence (DD-512) was laid down on 18 May 1942 by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; launched on 27 October 1942; sponsored by Mrs.
		Spence was attached to Destroyer Division (DesDiv) 46 of Destroyer Squadron (DesRon) 23.
		On 17 December, Spence prepared to refuel and pumped out all of the salt water ballast from her tanks; but rough seas caused the fueling operation to be canceled.
	www.cds23.navy.mil /Spence.htm (1053 words)

	USS Spence (DD-512) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spence sailed on 25 August as a unit of Task Group (TG) 1.2 consisting of the light carriers USS Princeton (CVL-23) and USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) to support troops who took possession of Baker Island on 1 September.
		Spence participated in the "Marianas Turkey Shoot" during the Battle of the Philippine Sea on 19 and 20 June.
		Spence replenished at Eniwetok in July and, on 4 August, sailed for the California coast via Pearl Harbor and arrived at San Francisco on 18 August.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Spence_(DD-512) (1379 words)

	USS Spence (DD-512) — History
		In October, 1943, the SPENCE helped support the landings on Treasury Island, was the target of at least one Jap bomber, together with the USS Foote, but came out of the engagement unscathed.
		The SPENCE, with other ships of Division 46, closed the crippled Jap ship, believed to be a Yubari-type light cruiser, but found her a tough one to sink.
		In late June, when it was discovered that the Japs were attempting to send shipping to Rota and Guam, the SPENCE and other members of the Task Unit [were] assigned to sweep the area and to destroy any enemy shipping [and] coastal defenses.
	www.destroyerhistory.org /fletcherclass/ussspence/history.html (593 words)

	DD-512 DANFS
		Spence (DD-512) was laid down on 18 May 1942 by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; launched on 27 October 1942; sponsored by Mrs.
		Spence sailed on 25 August as a unit of Task Group (TG) 1.2 consisting of Princeton (CVL-23) and Belleau Wood (CVL-24) to support troops who took possession of Baker Island on 1 September.
		Capt. Arleigh A. Burke assumed command of DesRon 23 on 23 October, and the squadron became known as the "Little Beavers." On 1 November, Spence participated in the bombardment of Buka and Bonis airfields and of enemy positions in the Shortland Islands to support the landings at Cape Torokina, Bougainville.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/destroy/dd512txt.htm (1299 words)

	Moments in History - Naval Order of the United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Spence had something less than the 15 percent she had reported a day earlier during her failed attempt to refuel from New Jersey.
		Spence was in terrible shape to confront heavy seas.
		Spence rolled heavily to port, taking water down her ventilators and probably a funnel.
	www.navalorder.org /m-history/current.html (2928 words)

	DANFS: USS Spence (DD-512)
		Spence operated with TF 39 from 1 to 24 March to support the landings on Emirau Island.
		Spence participated in the "Marianas Turkey Shoot" during the Battle of the Philippine Sea on 19 and 20 June.
		Spence replenished at Eniwetok in July and, on 4 August, sailed for the California coast via Pearl Harbor and arrived at San Francisco on 18 August.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/DD/dd512.html (1556 words)

	USS Spence (DD-512), Fletcher-class destroyer in World War II
		Operating with of Adm. “Tip” Merrill’s Task Force 39, Spence and her squadron screened cruisers Montpelier, Cleveland, Columbia and Denver in bombarding airfields at Buka and Bonis in northern Bougainville preceding landings at that island’s Empress Augusta Bay, 1 November.
		Spence also screened carriers for during air strikes and the occupation of the Marianas, including the Battle of the Philippine Sea (the “Marianas Turkey Shoot”), in June and July.
		One week later, Spence prepared to refuel and pumped out all salt water ballast from her tanks, but this operation was postponed due to heavy seas, breaking fuel lines and a near-collision with Adm. Halsey’s flagship New Jersey.
	www.destroyerhistory.org /fletcherclass/ussspence/index.html (685 words)

	Spence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Aitken Spence has a long history in the tourism sector and manages a chain of top-class, award-winning.
		USS Spence, DD 512 "always did more than her share," wrote Admiral Arleigh Burke in 1983 of the.
		Sarah Spence was born in North Shields on the 13th April 1814.1.
	flowers.zalp.net /page-spence.html (262 words)

	USN Ships--USS Spence (DD-512)
		She was heavily engaged in combat action during the rest of the month, fighting off enemy air attacks, performing escort and patrol missions, and, on 25 November, taking part in the Battle of Cape St.
		Spence remained active in the Solomons area for the rest of 1943 and the first three months of 1944, shelling enemy targets ashore and afloat as the Allied offensive reached northwards.
		Spence, low on fuel and therefore less stable than normally, suffered electrical and steering casualties, rolled deeply to port, capsized and sank.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-s/dd512.htm (731 words)

	DD-514 DANFS
		Spence sideswiped Thatcher, but the resulting damage did not threaten the survival of either ship.
		A closer inspection of Thatcher revealed that her collision with Spence had sprung her starboard shaft and had caused extensive dishing of her starboard side amidships.
		She steamed to Purvis Bay and was routed onward to Noumea where the misaligned screw was repaired.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/destroy/dd514txt.htm (2061 words)

	USS HIGGINS (DDG-76) USS Spence (DD-512) Memorial Ceremony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Following these operations, SPENCE proceeded to New Guinea and participated in the bombardment of Truk and Ponape and also in the Battle of the Phillipine Sea.
		SPENCE was caught in the heart of the storm without sufficient ballast and a jammed rudder casualty.
		SPENCE capsized and sank, taking 319 of her crew with her.
	www.higgins.navy.mil /Information/Spence (298 words)

	COMDESRON 23
		Also at one point SPENCE was on opposite side of a Jap destroyer being fired upon by DESDIV 45 and began to receive some near misses.
		The THATCHER, SPENCE and DYSON were assigned to the Third Fleet and were with the fleet when it encountered the infamous typhoon of Dec 1944.
		The BRAINE DD 630 was hit on May 27 with 66 killed and 78 wounded.
	www.ddg55.com /docs/cds23.htm (2900 words)

	Rody Joseph Tighe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Upon completion of basic training and fireman school he was assigned to the USS Spence, DD-512, as a fireman.
		During his short time on board the Spence had participated in the liberation of the Philippines, the liberation of Leyte, and air strikes on Mindora and Luzon.
		On November 12 Spence's rudder jammed during refueling causing her to nearly collide with the USS Wasp.
	www.cityofbeacon.org /beaconMemorial/WorldWarTwo/RodyJTighe.htm (469 words)

	USS Spence DD 512
		We are seeking information on the USS Spence and her crews.
		Files and photos may be E-mailed to us and we will incorporate them into these pages.
		My name is Shannon Harris and I have been doing research on my family's genealogy and I am trying to find information on my Great Uncle's Ship that was lost at sea.
	www.destroyersonline.com /usndd/info/infdf512.htm (356 words)

	Tribute to Dad and crews of USS HULL, USS MONAGHAN and USS SPENCE
		The result was three destroyers (the USS HULL, USS MONAGHAN and USS SPENCE) sunk with 800 men lost, 26 other vessels seriously damaged, and 146 aircraft destroyed (16).
		All three destroyers, the Hull, Spence, and Monahan capsized within view with tremendous loss of life.
		We were flag for the division and stationed front of the escort carrier, then called the Coral Sea, and rode out the storm on station.
	www.patriotwatch.com /va/tribute.htm (1150 words)

	Destroyer Squadron TWO THREE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Carl Vinson Battle Group included USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) and USS Oldendorf (DD 972) from DESRON 23, and USS McClusky (FFG 41) from Destroyer Squadron 1.
		Of the original vessels of the squadron, only Foote (DD-511), Charles Ausburne (DD-570), and Spence (DD-512), were present.
		Destroyer Squadron 23's operations in the Pacific continued through the Liberation of the Philippines, where Spence was lost in a typhoon 18 December 1944.
	www.diodon349.com /War/USS_Samuel_N._Moore_DD-747/destroyer_squadron_two_three.htm (2960 words)

	Spence Gerry Spence: Official Site: The Life, Works, And Ideas Of America's Finest Trial Lawyer Regardin
		USS Spence, DD 512 "always did more than her share " wrote Admiral Arleigh Burke in 1983 of the Empress Augusta Bay.
		Thomas Spence was born in Newcastle in 1750.
		Spence, Driscoll, and Company, Inc. Is a firm providing financial services since 1954 to businesses, individuals and families in the Southwest and throughout the United States.
	www.99hosted.com /names16070.html (538 words)

	DD-354 Monaghan
		At 1830 she reached the side of' badly damaged Yorktown, Joining the group of' destroyers struggling to save the carrier and guard her from further damage.
		A Japanese submarine penetrated next day and sank both Yorktown and Hammann (DD -412), the carrier remaining afloat another 16 hours before she succumbed.
		The fueling day was the first of the typhoon that claimed 790 lives in the 3d Fleet, and sank Spence (DD-512), Hull (DD-350), and Monaghan.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/dd-354.htm (1327 words)

	The USS Oakland Memorial to 790 Brave Men Typhoon 18 Dec 1944
		The word was that three DD and 3 DE were lost.
		was 2 DD (HULL and MONOGHAM) and I DE (SPENCE).
		SPENCE had only 15% fuel and little water ballast.
	www.rtcol.com /~oakland/typhoon.html (1488 words)

	Destroyer Squadron TWO THREE
		DD 966 Hewitt will de-commission in July 2001, and be replaced by DDG 85 McCampbell which comissions in August 2001.
		On 27 March 1944, Admiral Burke was relieved by Commander R.W. Cavenagh, who had temporary command of the Squadron until 8 April 1944, when Captain T.B. Dugan assumed command.
		The original team of Charles Ausburne, Dyson, Stanly, Claxton, Foote, Spence, Thatcher and Converse are now replaced by Fitzgerald, Thach, Oldendorf, John Young, Decatur and Hewitt.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/desron23.htm (2577 words)

	Christian Web Site Forum Archive - ChristianWebSite.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		While the USS Hull (DD-350), USS Spence (DD-512) and USS Monaghan (DD-354) were not as large as the ark is claimed to have been, all three capsized in a storm on Dec 18, 1944.
		The Spence was a Fletcher class destroyer and was 376’.
		She was turned broadside to the swell, took another deep roll and then capsized so quickly that even the personnel on the bridge were lost.
	www.botcw.com /talk/archive/index.php/t-8770.html (8826 words)

	U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Destroyers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		2-3, 1944 - Destroyers USS Allen M. Sumner (DD 692), USS Cooper(DD 695) and the USS Moale (DD 693) attacked a Japanese convoy landing reinforcements at Ormoc Bay on Leyte.
		Dec.18, 1944 - USS Hull (DD 350), USS Monaghan (DD 354), and USS Spence (DD 512) capsized during a typhoon off the Philippine coast.
		16, 1945 - USS Pringle (DD 477) sank and USS Laffey (DD 724) was heavily damaged by six aircraft and four bombs during a kamikaze attack off of Okinawa.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/destroyers/ddhist3.html (384 words)

	Order of Battle - Battle of Cape St. George - 25 November 1943 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		DD Onami*(F)—Commander Kiyoshi Kikkawa (Desdiv 31, Desron 2, 2nd Fleet)
		DD Makinami*—Commander Toyoji Hitomi (Desdiv 31, Desron 2, 2nd Fleet)
		DD Uzuki—Lt. Yoshiro Watanabe (Desdiv 30, Desron 3, 8th Fleet)
	www.navweaps.com /index_oob/OOB_WWII_Pacific/OOB_WWII_Cape-St_-George.htm (118 words)

	USS Monaghan (DD-354) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There she joined the escort for three fleet oilers bound for a rendezvous 17 December with TF 38, whose planes had been striking central Luzon in support of the Mindoro invasion.
		The fueling day was the first of the typhoon that claimed 790 lives in the 3rd Fleet, and sank Spence (DD-512), Hull (DD-350), and Monaghan.
		The six survivors, rescued by Brown after drifting on a raft 3 days, reported that Monaghan took roll after roll to starboard, finally going over.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Monaghan_(DD-354) (1399 words)

	Destroyer History — Acknowledgments
		USS Laffey, DD 459 — Cary Webb Sears
		USS Spence, DD 512 — Dave Meskill, Albert Rosley, Dick Strand
		USS Elliot, DD 967 and USS Fletcher, DD 992 — Cdr.
	www.destroyerhistory.org /destroyers/acknowledgments.html (893 words)

	Destroyer Squadron (DesRon) 23, the "Little Beavers" in World War II
		Thus, when the squadron was activated at Boston 11 May under the command of Captain M.J. Gillan with Foote, Spence and Charles Ausburne present, Stanly (DD 478, commissioned at the same time from Charleston Navy Yard) replaced her.
		There, Foote was torpedoed and had to be towed home, while Thatcher sideswiped Spence and also had to return to the west coast for repairs.
		Later, Claxton was damaged by a suicide plane and Abner Read, steaming to assist her, was sunk.
	www.destroyerhistory.org /desron23 (1077 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Typhoon Cobra - Disaster at Sea - Dec. 18th, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		SPENCE is de-ballasted, light in fuel; she rides like a cork and is flung like a cork in the terrible canyon-like troughs.
		TABBERER also rescues ten survivors from SPENCE aboard a life raft on the 20th; other ships, scouring the ocean now that news of the sinkings is widely disseminated, find a handful of spent and injured sailors, who will forever comprehend more fully than any living men the meaning of the fury of the sea.
		George Johnson, a chief watertender, had been with the Spence since it was a proud part of Arleigh (31Knot) Burke's Little Beaver Squadron in the Solomons.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/808538/posts (13164 words)

	US Destroyers of Pacific War, 1942
		Allen, the lowest numbered DD, saw duty in the Pearl Harbor area until August 1945.
		USS Jacob Jones (DD-130) commissioned 20 October 1919, 1,090 tons, 4- 4" guns, 12 tt and served many years as a plane guard in the North Atlantic and Caribbean.
		Forty minutes later the DD's soundman picked up the undersea marauder, and Greer began to trail the submarine.
	www.ww2pacific.com /ships3.html (2934 words)

	desron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		THATCHER, SPENCE and DYSON were assigned to the Third Fleet and were with the
		San Francisco at that time and of course the SPENCE was lost at sea in December 1944.
		In January of 1946, Destroyer Squadron 23 was deactivated and a few months later the ships were either placed in reserve or decommissioned.
	www.ultravision.net /clyce/claxton/desron.htm (2963 words)

	News Letter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The ship remained over on her side at an angle of 80 degrees or more as the water flooded into her upper structures.
		The USS SPENCE DD-512 and the USS MONAGHAN DD-354 went down that day with a total of 92 survivors from the three ships.
		Valiant rescue work by USS Tabberer (DE 418) Captained by Harry Plage and other ships of the fleet in the days that followed saved the lives of 55 enlisted and 7 officers from HULL.
	home.earthlink.net /~usshull1/Hull-Newsltr-1.htm (950 words)

	Memorandum
		Through your efforts we saved the lives of forty one men from the
		U.S.S HULL (DD 350) and fourteen men from the U.S.S SPENCE
		(DD 512), a total of fifty five men.
	www.geocities.com /de418/Memorandum.html (182 words)

	NavSource Online: Destroyer Photo Archive
		DD 193 ABEL P. DD 200 through DD 205 CANCELLED
		DD 786 RICHARD B. DD 809 through DD 816 CANCELLED
		DD 928 JOHN S. DD 934 - WAR PRIZE (Japan Hanazuki)
	www.navsource.org /archives/05idx.htm (327 words)

	Top of the Ladder: Marine Operations in the Northern Solomons (Battle at Sea) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Among his captains was the daring and determined Arleigh Burke on board the Charles S. Ausburne (DD 570) commanding DesDiv (Destroyer Division) 45.
		Then a Japanese torpedo caught the U.S. destroyer Foote (DD 511) and blew off her stern, leaving her dead in the water.
		The Americans got off with severe damage to the Foote and light damage to the Denver, Spence (DD 512), and Columbia.
	www.nps.gov /wapa/indepth/extContent/usmc/pcn-190-003141-00/sec4.htm (826 words)

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