Hull Number: DE-344
Launch Date: 01/18/1944
Commissioned Date: 05/11/1944
Decommissioned Date: 07/11/1945
Call Sign: NTEU
Class: JOHN C. BUTLER
JOHN C. BUTLER Class
Namesake: THOMAS OLIN OBERRENDER, JR.
THOMAS OLIN OBERRENDER, JR.
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, April 2016
Thomas Olin Oberrender, Jr., born in DuBois, Pa., 24 September 1906, graduated from the Naval Academy in the Class of 1927. After serving in cruisers Rochester, Tulsa, and Louisville and other ships, he attended postgraduate school from 1934 to 1936, followed by duty in battleship Nevada. Assigned as engineering officer in destroyer Hull in 1938, he became her executive officer the following year. After a brief period of duty ashore he reported on board the new cruiser Juneau in November 1941, when the ship was just fitting out. When she commissioned the following February, he was her engineering officer. Lt. Comdr. Oberrender died 13 November 1942 when Juneau was torpedoed and sunk in action in the Solomon Islands.
Disposition:
Stricken 25 July 1945. Stripped of all worthwhile equipment, her hulk was sunk by gunfire on 6 November of that year.