High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Knapp (DD-653), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Harry Shepard Knapp. Her keel was laid down on 8 March 1943 by Bath Iron Works, in Bath, Maine. She was launched on 10 July 1943, sponsored by Margaret L. and Mary C. Knapp, and commissioned on 16 September 1943, with Commander Frank Virden in command. After shakedown out of Bermuda, Knapp departed Boston on 26 November for the Pacific Ocean, arriving Pearl Harbor on 21 December. She departed Pearl Harbor on 16 January, with the aircraft carriers of Admiral Marc Mitscher's Task Force 58, headed for the Marshall Islands invasion. At sea on this duty from 16 January-12 February when she put in to Majuro, Knapp also bombarded Kwajalein. She continued her screening as carriers launched raids on Truk from 16–17 February and on bases in the Mariana Islands from 21 February to 22 February, then sailed from Majuro to Espiritu Santo to screen carriers providing air cover for the seizure of Emirau Island from 20 March-25 March and raiding the Palau Islands, Yap, and Woleai from 30 March-1 April.

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