Allied Warships

USS Yarnall (ii) (DD 541)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 541
Built by	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	5 Dec 1942
Launched	25 Jul 1943
Commissioned	30 Dec 1943
End service	30 Sep 1958
History	Decommissioned 15 January 1947. Recommissioned 31 August 1950. Decommissioned 30 September 1958. Stricken 25 January 1974. Transferred to Taiwan on 10 June 1968 being Renamed Kun Yang. Kun Yang was stricken on 16 October 1999.

Commands listed for USS Yarnall (ii) (DD 541)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Capt. Benjamin Francis Tompkins, USN	30 Dec 1943	8 Aug 1944
2	Lt.Cdr. James Henry Hogg, USN	8 Aug 1944	17 Dec 1944
3	T/Cdr. James Beattie Denny, USN	17 Dec 1944	5 May 1946

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Notable events involving Yarnall (ii) include:

8 Oct 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) fuelled the light cruiser USS San Diego (Capt. W.E.A. Mulen, USN) and two destroyers, USS Yarnall (Cdr. J.H. Hogg, USN) and USS Benham (Cdr. F.S. Keeler, USN).

Thereafter Iowa herself fuelled from the USS Neches (Cdr. H.G. Hansen, USN).