USS Breese (DM-18)
USS ''Breese'' (DD-122) was a in the United States Navy during World War I, and later redesignated, DM-18 in World War II. She was the only ship named for Captain (naval), Captain Kidder Breese. Commissioned as a destroyer in 1919, she undertook a number of patrol and training duties along the East Coast of the United States until being decommissioned in 1922. Overhauled in 1931, she returned to service with the United States Pacific Fleet on training and patrol for the next 10 years. She was present during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and following this she supported several operations during the war, laying minefields and sweeping for mines in the Pacific. Following the end of the war, she was sold for scrap in 1946 and broken up. Design and construction ''Breese'' was one of 111 s built by the United States Navy between 1917 and 1919. She, along with ten of her sisters, were constructed at Newport News Shipbuilding shipyards in Newport News, Virginia using specifications ...
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