Allied Warships

USS Dortch (DD 670)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassFletcher 
PennantDD 670 
Built byFederal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down2 Mar 1943 
Launched20 Jun 1943 
Commissioned7 Aug 1943 
End service13 Dec 1957 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 19 July 1946.
Recommissioned 4 May 1951.
Decommissioned 13 December 1957.
Stricken 1 September 1975.
Transferred to Argentina 16 August 1961 being renamed Espora.
Espora was stricken and broken up for scrap in 1977.

 

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1Lt.Cdr. Robert Cummings Young, USN7 Aug 1943???

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