USS Bulmer

USS Bulmer (DD-222/AG-86) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II.

When the United States entered World War II, Bulmer was still assigned to the Asiatic Fleet and stationed in the Philippines.

[2] As a unit of Task Force 5 (TF 5), DesRon 29, Bulmer took part in the Battle of Bali Sea on 4 February 1942, where the allies were defeated.

On 19 February, along with Barker and Black Hawk, she departed Tjilatjap, Java, for Exmouth Gulf, Australia, and an overhaul.

She arrived at Pearl Harbor on 16 June and reported to Commander, Service Force, Pacific Fleet, for duty.

From June 1942 to May 1943, she operated as an escort vessel for convoys sailing between Pearl Harbor and San Francisco and return.

Bulmer next made a trans-Atlantic voyage to Swansea Wales and then commenced convoy escort duty between northeastern Atlantic ports and North Africa from 4 October 1943 to 31 July 1944.

On 13–14 January, during one of these voyages, Bulmer and other escorts made several attacks against a German wolf pack of submarines in the eastern Atlantic.