USN · DD

Capps

Afloat

Fletcher-class destroyer. Gulf Shipbuilding, Chickasaw. Commissioned 23 June 1943. Off Iwo Jima she fired more than 2,600 five-inch shells. She screened escort carriers off Okinawa for 82 days and was not hit. Spain took her in 1957.

Class	Fletcher class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	DD-550
Builder	Gulf Shipbuilding, Chickasaw
Launched	1942-05-31
Commissioned	1943-06-23
Fate	Afloat. Survived the war. Loaned to Spain as Lepanto on 15 May 1957. Stricken at the end of 1985 and scrapped.
Armament (class)	Five single 5-inch guns, two funnels, and two sets of torpedo tubes.
Command	Trippensee, Bruce Edward Scofield Captain, 23 June 1943 – 24 October 1944 Wood, James Marshall Captain, 24 October 1944 – 6 November 1945 Robertson, J. W. Captain from 6 November 1945

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

USN. USS Capps (DD-550) off San Pedro CA in September 1945.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The pictures on this page are the originals.

Command

BTTrippensee, Bruce Edward ScofieldCaptain, 23 June 1943 – 24 October 1944 JWWood, James MarshallCaptain, 24 October 1944 – 6 November 1945 JWRobertson, J. W.Captain from 6 November 1945