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Howorth

Class	Fletcher class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	DD-592
Launched	1943-01-10
Commissioned	1944-04-03
Fate	Afloat. Survived the war. Sunk as target, 8 March 1962
Armament (class)	Five single 5-inch guns, two funnels, and two sets of torpedo tubes.
Command	Burns, Edward Stitt Captain, 3 April 1944 – 5 June 1945 Thompson, William Lewis Captain from 5 June 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.

USS Howorth (DD-592) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was launched on 10 January 1943.

The Navy commissioned her on 3 April 1944. Edward Stitt Burns became her captain that day and held the command until 5 June 1945.

At Okinawa on 1 April 1945, with Burns still in command, a kamikaze hit her bridge. Howorth remained afloat.

On 5 June 1945 William Lewis Thompson succeeded Burns as captain. The change came two months after the aircraft struck the bridge, and Thompson’s command ran on from that June day. Howorth survived the war. On 8 March 1962 the hull was sunk as a target.

The pictures on this page are the originals.