Pacific ships

USN · DD

La Vallette

Photos and info
Afloat

Fletcher-class destroyer. Arrived at Vella Lavella after the fight and put the finishing torpedo into the abandoned Chevalier.

Fletcher classLaunched 1942-06-21Commissioned 1942-08-12Survived the war.

U.S. Navy. USS La Vallette (DD-448) underway, circa in late 1942.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Command

HHHarry Havelock HendersonCaptain, 12 August 1942 – 19 June 1943WMWells Thompson MarCaptain, 1944 – 1 August 1945EGEdward Isham GibsonCaptain, 1 August 1945 – 1 October 1945

Battle of Vella Lavella

1943-10-06 · scuttled the abandoned Chevalier

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Shot and shell

sunk · torpedoUSS Chevalier
After the wounded were taken off, La Vallette scuttled Chevalier.