Allied Warships

USS Bowers (DE 637)

Destroyer Escort of the Buckley class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer Escort
Class	Buckley
Pennant	DE 637
Built by	Bethlehem Steel Corp., (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	28 Mar 1943
Launched	31 Oct 1943
Commissioned	27 Jan 1944
End service	18 Dec 1956
Loss position

History	Converted to High Speed Transport and reclassified as APD- 40 on 25 June 1945. Decommissioned 10 February 1947. Recommissioned 6 February 1951. Decommissioned 18 December 1956. Stricken by the U.S.N. 1 May 1961. Transferred to the Philippines 21 April 1961 being renamed Rajah Soliman. Rajah Soliman was sunk in a Typhoon in June 1962. Raised and stricken in December 1964, broken up for scrap in 1966.

Commands listed for USS Bowers (DE 637)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Frederick William Hawes, USN	27 Jan 1944	???

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Media links

Destroyers of World War Two
Whitley, M. J.

The Buckley-Class Destroyer Escorts
Bruce Hampton Franklin

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