Allied Warships

USS Twining (DD 540)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassFletcher 
PennantDD 540 
Built byBethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down20 Nov 1942 
Launched11 Jun 1943 
Commissioned1 Dec 1943 
End service1 Jul 1971 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 14 June 1946.
Recommissioned 10 June 1950.
Decommissioned 1 July 1971.
Transferred to Taiwan on 1 July 1971 being renamed Kwei Yang.
Kwei Yang was stricken on 16 July 1999.

 

Commands listed for USS Twining (DD 540)

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CommanderFromTo
1Ellis Kerr Wakefield, USN1 Dec 194327 Jan 1945
2Cdr. Frank Voris List, USN27 Jan 1945Feb 1945
3Cdr. Ephraim Paul Holmes, USNFeb 194514 Jun 1946

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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

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