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Heywood L. Edwards

Class	Fletcher class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	DD-663
Launched	1943-10-06
Commissioned	1944-01-26
Fate	Afloat. Survived the war. Transferred to Japan, 10 March 1959
Armament (class)	Five single 5-inch guns, two funnels, and two sets of torpedo tubes.
Command	Boulware, Joe Wood Captain, 26 January 1944 – 25 December 1944 Shepherd, Albert Lee Captain from 25 December 1944

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.

USS Heywood L. Edwards (DD-663) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was launched on 6 October 1943 and commissioned on 26 January 1944. Joe Wood Boulware was her captain from the day she entered service.

Boulware was still in command when the ship took part in the Battle of Surigao Strait on 25 October 1944. In that battle she was on the left flank. His tour ended on 25 December 1944. Albert Lee Shepherd became captain that day. Heywood L. Edwards survived the war. On 10 March 1959 she was transferred to Japan.

The pictures on this page are the originals.