USN · DD

Dashiell

Afloat

Fletcher-class destroyer. Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny. Commissioned 20 March 1943. She grounded off Tarawa. Off Okinawa on 14 April 1945 about twenty planes came at her picket station. She was not sunk. She was in Tokyo Bay at the surrender.

Class	Fletcher class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	DD-659
Builder	Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny
Launched	1943-02-06
Commissioned	1943-03-20
Fate	Afloat. Survived the war. Decommissioned in 1960. Struck in 1974. Sold for scrap, 21 September 1975.
Armament (class)	Five single 5-inch guns, two funnels, and two sets of torpedo tubes.
Command	McLean, John Boyd Captain, 20 March 1943 – 9 January 1944 Barham, Eugene Alexander Captain, 9 January 1944 – 24 July 1944 Cordiner, Douglas Lee Lipscomb Captain, 24 July 1944 – 29 September 1945 Wicks, John Edward Captain from 29 September 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.

U.S. Navy. USS Dashiell (DD-659) underway in the Pacific Ocean, in November 1943 (80-G-56275).jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The pictures on this page are the originals.

Command

JMMcLean, John BoydCaptain, 20 March 1943 – 9 January 1944 EBBarham, Eugene AlexanderCaptain, 9 January 1944 – 24 July 1944 DCCordiner, Douglas Lee LipscombCaptain, 24 July 1944 – 29 September 1945 JWWicks, John EdwardCaptain from 29 September 1945