Allied Warships

USS Metcalf (DD 595)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 595
Built by	Puget Sound Navy Yard (Bremerton, Washington, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	10 Aug 1943
Launched	25 Sep 1944
Commissioned	18 Nov 1944
End service	Mar 1946
History	Decommissioned in March 1946. Stricken 2 January 1971. Sold 6 June 1972 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Metcalf (DD 595)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. David Louis Martineau, USN	18 Nov 1944	5 Feb 1946

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Notable events involving Metcalf include:

27 Jun 1945
In the morning HrMs Tromp (A/Capt. F. Stam, RNN) bombarded Japanese shore guns off Balikpapan.

Later that day Tromp joined Task Force 74.1 which was made up of the Australian heavy cruiser HMAS Shropshire (Capt. C.A.G. Nichols, MVO, DSO, RN), the Australian light cruiser HMAS Hobart (Capt. R.S. Dowling, RAN), the Australian destroyer HMAS Arunta (Cdr. A.E. Buchanan, DSO, RAN) and the US destroyers USS Hart (Cdr. W.D. Coleman, USN) and USS Metcalf (Cdr. D.L. Martineau, USN). (1)