USS Warrington (DD-383) was a , 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. She was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Lewis Warrington, an officer in the Navy during the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812. He also temporarily served as the Secretary of the Navy. 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. Inter-war period Warrington did her shakedown cruise to the West Indies in April–May, and returned to New York City on 24 May. She then underwent post-shakedown availability, and conducted tactical training off Cape Cod and the Virginia Capes. She also participated in maneuvers with the boats of Submarine Division 4 (SubDiv 4) in waters near New London. In October, she headed south for refresher training in Cuban waters. On 4 December, the warship headed north to Newport, Rhode Island, where she became a unit of DesDiv 17, DesRon 9. Warrington operated along the East Coast and made a cruise to the Caribbean in a task group built around the aircraft carriers and to participate in Fleet Problem XX. In mid-February 1939, she reported to Key West to serve as an escort for , 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. Assigned to the Battle Force, United States Fleet, the destroyer conducted operations along the California coast for the next nine months. At the beginning of April 1940, she departed San Diego