 On 6 May 1942 , she took on 84 survivors of the carrier Yorktown which had sunk in the aftermath of the Battle of Midway . During the summer of 1942 , she operated out of the South Pacific On 3 August 1942 , she , along with minesweepers Gamble and Tracy , were laying mines in <unk> Channel , <unk> Santo . Destroyer Tucker entered the <unk> on escort patrol , having not been notified of the minefield , when she struck one of the mines and sank . Breese , which was moored in the channel , rendered aid . On 30 September 1942 , she was on a nighttime exercise off <unk> Santo when she was damaged in a collision with the cruiser San Francisco . She carried out <unk> duties during the consolidation of the Solomon Islands from 1 – 13 May 1943 , where she was assigned to Task Group 36 @.@ 5 alongside Gamble , <unk> , and Radford . They laid mined in <unk> Strait to guard the western approaches to <unk> Gulf . 
