Allied Warships

USS Howard F. Clark (DE 533)

Destroyer Escort of the John C. Butler class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassJohn C. Butler 
PennantDE 533 
Built byBoston Navy Yard (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down8 Oct 1943 
Launched8 Nov 1943 
Commissioned25 May 1944 
End service15 Jul 1946 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 15 July 1946.
Stricken 15 May 1972.
Sold 6 September 1973 and broken up for scrap.

 

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1Lt.Cdr. Eugene Benjamin Hayden, USN25 May 1944???

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Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.

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