USS Charles Ausburne (DD 570)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 570
Built by	Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd. (Orange, Texas, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	14 May 1941
Launched	16 Mar 1942
Commissioned	24 Nov 1942
End service	18 Apr 1946
Loss position

History	Decommissioned 18 April 1946. Charles Ausburne (DD 570), was tranferred to the Federal German Navy on 12 April 1960, under the U.S Military Assistance Program, she was renamed Z-6. Also handed over were five of her sister ships. Anthony (DD 515) Ringgold (DD 500) Wadsworth (DD516) Claxton (DD 571) Dyson (DD 572). Z-6 was stricken in October 1968 and broken up for scrap.

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Luther Kendrick Reynolds, USN	24 Nov 1942	1 Jun 1944
2	Howard K Baker, USN	1 Jun 1944	11 Sep 1945

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