Allied Warships

USS Richard P. Leary (DD 664)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassFletcher 
PennantDD 664 
Built byBoston Navy Yard (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down4 Jul 1943 
Launched6 Oct 1943 
Commissioned23 Feb 1944 
End service10 Dec 1946 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 10 December 1946.
Transferred to Japan 10 March 1959 being renamed Yugure.
Yugure was stricken in 1974 and broken up for scrap.

 

Commands listed for USS Richard P. Leary (DD 664)

Please note that we're still working on this section.

CommanderFromTo
1Cdr. Frederick Shrom Habecker, USN23 Feb 1944Nov 1944
2Duncan Patterson Dixon, Jr., USNNov 1944Sep 1945

You can help improve our commands section
Click here to Submit events/comments/updates for this vessel.
Please use this if you spot mistakes or want to improve this ships page.

Media links


Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.


U.S. Destroyers

Friedman, Norman


United States Destroyer Operations In World War II.

Roscoe, Theodore

Return to the Allied Warships section