USS Hugh Purvis (DD 709)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Allen M. Sumner
Pennant	DD 709
Built by	Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered	7 Aug 1942
Laid down	23 May 1944
Launched	17 Dec 1944
Commissioned	1 Mar 1945
End service	15 Jun 1972
History	Decommissioned 15 June 1972. Transferred to Turkey 1 July 1972 being renamed Zafer. Zafer was stricken in 1993 and broken up for scrap in 1994.

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Byron Lawrence Gurnette, USN	1 Mar 1945	28 Sep 1945
2	T/Lt.Cdr. Thomas Chapin Buell, USN	28 Sep 1945	21 Oct 1945
3	T/Cdr. Charles Weigel Musgrave, USN	21 Oct 1945	31 Mar 1947

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