Talk:USS William D. Porter (DD-579)

Plagiarism

Some sections seems to be copied verbatim from here, but I see now that hazegray probably got it from the same source as Wikipedia. --Anss123 18:31, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Incidents

I was unable to locate the Norfolk anchor collision incident from November 1943, none of the 3 ships that were moored together mention it in their ship's logs.[1][2][3] For such a "major" incident, something would be in someone's logs, especially the ship damaged. There is also no mention of losing a depth charge a day prior to the Iowa incident. 4 ship's, Iowa, W.D. Porter, Cogswell and Young logs all mention the loss of W.D. Porter's boiler, but none describe a search for a u-boot or a lost depth charge that day. I also could not locate anything about the friendly fire incident with Luce. Luce spent 40 days on picket duty at Okinawa, and was sunk at the end of that stretch. They were many miles from W. D. Porter which was doing shore bombardment duty much of that time. Luce's logs towards the end were reconstructed by a survivor from memory, but there is nothing regarding that incident in logs from March to May 1945. I also looked through the task group's war diary and found no mention of it despite the extensive details of the operations in that area. --Dual Freq (talk) 02:42, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

I did find a 16 October 1944 incident in Pearl Harbor where W.D. Porter got underway from USS Yosemite in the pre-dawn darkness, nearly collided with a buoy and damaged some boats with prop wash while avoiding the collision.[4] A motor launch was capsized and a "landing boat holed so that it had to be beached to prevent sinking."[5] Perhaps this incident was confused to have been a year earlier and in Norfolk, vice Pearl. In Leyte Gulf 31 Jan 1945, they came within about 250 yards of colliding with HMAS Warramunga, both ships were traveling in darkness amongst other vessels laying at anchor around them. W.D. Porter said they had failed to recognize in the darkness that the Australian ship was moving, rather than anchored.[6] --Dual Freq (talk) 02:42, 15 June 2015 (UTC)