High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Ellis (DD 154) was a Wickes class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War II. She was reclassified AG-115 on 30 June 1945. She was the second ship named for Chief Yeoman George Henry Ellis. Ellis was launched 30 November 1918 by William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; sponsored by Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury; and commissioned 7 June 1919, Lieutenant Commander T. E. Van Metre in command.