USS Schenck
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USS Schenk (DD-159), named for Rear Admiral James F. Schenk USN (1807-1882), was a Wickes-class destroyer.
Schenk was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden in New Jersey on 26 March 1918, launched on 23 April 1919 by Miss Mary Janet Earle and commissioned on 30 October 1919. Schenck was decommissioned on 9 June 1922 and placed in reserve at Philadelphia until recommissioned on 1 May 1930, was assigned to Neutrality Patrol duties off the east coast and in the Caribbean on 9 September 1939, and served on convoy escort and patrol duty between east coast ports, the Caribbean, and North Africa during World War II.
Schenck was decommissioned at the Boston Naval Shipyard on 17 May 1946, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 5 June 1946 and sold for scrap to the Boston Metals Company at Baltimore in Maryland on 25 November 1946.
