Allied Warships

USS Isherwood (DD 520)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassFletcher 
PennantDD 520 
Built byBethlehem Steel Corp. (Staten Island, New York, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down12 May 1942 
Launched24 Nov 1942 
Commissioned12 Apr 1943 
End service11 Sep 1961 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 1 February 1946.,/br> Recommissioned 5 April 1951.
Decommissioned 11 September 1961.
Stricken 15 January 1974.
Transferred to Peru on 8 October 1961 being renamed Almirante Guise. Almirante Fuise was stricken and scraped in 1981.

 

Commands listed for USS Isherwood (DD 520)

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CommanderFromTo
Louis Edward Schmidt, Jr., USN1 Feb 1946
1Cdr. Robert Emmett Gadrow, USN12 Apr 1943???

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