Ships
- USS Allen (DD-66) Captain from 10 January 1919 · Relieved on 10 April 1920
Lieutenant John Edwin Ostrander, Jr., of the United States Navy, assumed command of the destroyer Allen on 10 January 1919. He served as her captain until 10 April 1920.
Allen was a Sampson-class destroyer built at Bath, Maine, by Bath Iron Works. Laid down in May 1915 and launched on 5 December 1916, she entered service on 24 January 1917 under Lieutenant Commander Samuel Woods Bryant. In the First World War she escorted convoys and patrolled for submarines, beginning along the East Coast and in the West Indies. On 14 June 1917 she left New York with an early convoy of American troops bound for France, and she spent the rest of the war with the naval forces in European waters. In December 1918 she took part in the escort that brought President Woodrow Wilson into Brest aboard George Washington. Commander Louis Calott Farley had commanded her from April 1918, and on 10 January 1919 he was relieved by Ostrander.
Ostrander’s fifteen months in command covered the ship’s return to the United States and her duty with the Atlantic Fleet along the eastern seaboard. The Armistice of November 1918 had already ended the fighting at sea. Allen stayed in full commission, armed with four 4-inch guns and twelve torpedo tubes and carrying a complement of about 130, while the fleet settled into peacetime routine. On 10 April 1920 Commander Charles Carroll Soule, Jr. relieved him.
Allen remained with the Atlantic Fleet after Ostrander left and was placed out of commission on 22 June 1922. The Navy brought her back for later service. She was at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and came through the attack with her hull intact and her crew unhurt. She spent the Pacific war mainly on local escort and patrol, was decommissioned for the last time in 1945, and was sold for scrap in 1946.