Allied Warships

USS Converse (DD 509)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassFletcher 
PennantDD 509 
Built byBath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down23 Feb 1942 
Launched30 Aug 1942 
Commissioned20 Nov 1942 
End service23 Apr 1946 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 23 April 1946.
Transferred to Spain on 1 July 1959 being renamed Almirante Valdés (D 23).
Almirante Valdés was stricken on 17 November 1986 and scraped in 1988.

 

Commands listed for USS Converse (DD 509)

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CommanderFromTo
1Cdr. Dewitt Clinton Ellis Hamberger, USN20 Nov 1942> Nov 43
2Lt.Cdr. Ellis Hole McDowell, USN194320 Jan 1944
3Cdr. John Barr Colwell, USN20 Jan 194427 Sep 1944
4Lt.Cdr. Ellis Hole McDowell, USN27 Sep 1944???

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