Allied Warships

USS Boyd (DD 544)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassFletcher 
PennantDD 544 
Built byBethlehem Steel Corp. (San Pedro, California, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down2 Apr 1942 
Launched29 Oct 1942 
Commissioned8 May 1943 
End service1 Oct 1969 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 15 January 1947.
Recommissioned 24 November 1950.
Decommissioned and stricken on 1 October 1969.
Transferred to Turkey on 1 October 1969 being renamed Iskenderun.
Iskenderun was stricken and scrapped in 1981.

 

Commands listed for USS Boyd (DD 544)

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CommanderFromTo
1Cdr. Ulysses Simpson Grant Sharp, Jr., USN8 May 194310 Nov 1944
2Archibald Edgerton Teale, USN10 Nov 1944Dec 1944

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