USS Warrington (DD-383) was a Somers-class destroyer, laid down on 10 October 1935 at Kearny, New Jersey, by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company; launched on 15 May 1937; sponsored by Miss Katherine Taft Chubb; and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 9 February 1938.

After several years of service in the Pacific theater during World War II, Warrington was sunk by the 1944 Great Atlantic hurricane off the Bahamas on 13 September 1944.

Warrington operated along the East Coast and made a cruise to the Caribbean in a task group built around the aircraft carriers Enterprise and Yorktown to participate in Fleet Problem XX.

In mid-February 1939, she reported to Key West to serve as an escort for Houston, the cruiser in which president Franklin D. Roosevelt and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral William D. Leahy embarked to observe the concluding phase of the 1939 annual Fleet exercise.

The destroyer concluded that assignment upon her arrival at Charleston, South Carolina, on 3 March where Roosevelt and Leahy left Houston to return to Washington.

After three months of operations along the coast between New York and Norfolk, Virginia, the destroyer moored at Fort Hancock, New Jersey, on the morning of 9 June to embark King George VI and Elizabeth Queen of Great Britain for passage to Manhattan.

Warrington departed Norfolk on 26 June, transited the Panama Canal on 3 July and arrived in her new home port, San Diego, soon thereafter.

At the beginning of April 1940, she departed San Diego with the ships of Battle Force to participate in Fleet Problem XXI, conducted in Hawaiian waters.

Though nominally retaining San Diego as her home port, Warrington was based at Pearl Harbor for most of her remaining peacetime service.

She arrived at San Juan on 3 November; then headed north for a two-day visit at Norfolk; and entered the Charleston Navy Yard on the 9th for repairs.

She had two primary missions to perform: escorting merchant, supply, and troop ships between Panama and the Society Islands and patrolling for submarines in the southeastern Pacific as far south as Callao, Peru.

Secondary assignments included duty as target and training ship for submarines preparing to enter the war zone and for Army patrol bombers getting ready to do the same.

After the Guadalcanal landings on 7 August, her runs to the Society Islands took on new meaning because the bulk of the ships she escorted after that date carried supplies and reinforcements to support America's first offensive in the Pacific.

On 10–11 December, she had the honor of escorting the battleship South Dakota, heavily damaged in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in mid-November, into Balboa on her way to repairs at New York.

Upon reaching Nouméa, New Caledonia, she began a five-week stretch of convoy duty that took her to such diverse places as Australia, Samoa, Hawaii, Guadalcanal, and the New Hebrides Islands.

On 1 October, she departed Espiritu Santo in the last-named island group to escort Prince William to Samoa, whence the destroyer headed to Pearl Harbor for repairs and to pick up a convoy.

Warrington returned to Espiritu Santo on 30 October but by 6 November had arrived off Koli Point, Guadalcanal, where she joined up with the second echelon of the Bougainville invasion force.

Dense foliage precluded the identification of specific targets, so Warrington contented herself with an area bombardment, firing more or less uniformly throughout the designated sector.

About an hour later, she received instructions from the commanding general ashore to patrol west of the beachhead to keep the Japanese from moving reinforcements in from that direction.

After a singularly uneventful morning and afternoon, the destroyer quit her patrols and assumed responsibility as fighter director ship when Swanson left the unit that night.

From 3–5 June, she made another voyage to Biak during which she provided gunfire support briefly on the 5th before departing to escort the empty LST's back to Humboldt Bay.

Following a voyage that took her to Manus in the Admiralties and back to Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides, Warrington departed the latter port on 19 June in company with Balch to return to the United States.