Allied Warships

USS Cogswell (DD 651)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassFletcher 
PennantDD 651 
Built byBath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down1 Feb 1943 
Launched5 Jun 1943 
Commissioned17 Aug 1943 
End service1 Oct 1969 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 30 April 1946.
Recommissioned 7 January 1951.
Decommissioned and stricken 1 October 1969.
Transferred to Turkey 1 October 1969 being renamed Izmit.
Izmit was stricken and broken up for scrap in 1980.

 

Commands listed for USS Cogswell (DD 651)

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CommanderFromTo
1Cdr. Harold Thomas Deutermann, USN17 Aug 194331 Oct 1944
2Cdr. Robert Elmore Lockwood, USN31 Oct 19447 Apr 1945
3Reuben Noel Perley, Jr., USN7 Apr 19454 Sep 1946

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