Allied Warships

USS Woodworth (DD 460)

Destroyer of the Bristol class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassBristol 
PennantDD 460 
Built byBethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down13 Jan 1941 
Launched29 Nov 1941 
Commissioned30 Apr 1942 
End service6 Apr 1946 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 6 April 1946.
Stricken 22 January 1951.
To Italy 15 January 1951 being renamed Artigliere.
Artigliere was stricken and scrapped in 1971.

 

Commands listed for USS Woodworth (DD 460)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt.Cdr. Richard Christopher Webb, Jr., USN30 Apr 1942

2Cdr Virgil Francis Gordinier, USN Aug 1943
3Lt.Cdr. Charles Robert Stephan, USNAug 1943Nov 1944
4Cdr. William Paden Mack, USNNov 194411 Apr 1946

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Noteable events involving Woodworth include:


30 Jun 1943
Strafed by Japanese Aircraft only minor damage caused and only one of the crew were wounded.

Media links


Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.


U.S. Destroyers

Friedman, Norman


United States Destroyer Operations In World War II.

Roscoe, Theodore

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