Ships
- USS Russell (DD-414) Captain, 3 November 1939 – 12 July 1941
James Carter Pollock, a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy, took command of the destroyer Russell on 3 November 1939, the day the ship was commissioned. Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company had built her at Newport News, Virginia. The keel was laid on 20 December 1937, and the hull was launched on 8 December 1938. Mrs. Charles H. Marshall, granddaughter of Rear Admiral John Henry Russell, sponsored the ship. The destroyer was named for the admiral.
She was a Sims-class destroyer, and she entered service while war was already underway in Europe and the United States was still neutral. Pollock's crew finished the new ship's trials and then took her onto the Neutrality Patrol. Through the rest of his command, Russell worked in the western Atlantic and the Caribbean, training at sea and watching the patrol areas as the conflict overseas spread.
Pollock's tour ended on 12 July 1941, after a little more than twenty months. Glenn Roy Hartwig relieved him that day. Hartwig was still in command when the attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into the war. Russell remained on Neutrality Patrol until then, and afterward she was ordered through the Panama Canal into the Pacific.
Russell passed in turn to Warren Howard McClain, Frederick Evans Moore, Lewis Robinson Miller, and John Edward Wicks. Under those captains she spent the rest of the war on Pacific operations. The destroyer was decommissioned on 15 November 1945, struck from the Navy list later that month, and sold for scrap in 1947.