Manley Proves Worth

THU 11 JAN 1940
Fleet Landing Exercise (FLEX) No. 6 begins at Culebra, Puerto Rico. Lack of transports compels the Navy to substitute combatant ships in that role for purposes of the exercise; an important exception is the prototype high-speed transport Manley (APD-1), converted from a World War I emergency program "flush-deck, four-pipe" destroyer, which amply proves her worth.

Gunboat Charleston (PG-51) suffers damage when she runs aground at Colon, C.Z.

U.S. freighter Tripp is detained at Gibraltar by British authorities (see 13 January).