Photos and the story

Newcomb

Class	Fletcher class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	DD-586
Launched	1943-07-04
Commissioned	1943-11-10
Fate	Afloat. Survived the war. Scrapped, October 1947
Armament (class)	Five single 5-inch guns, two funnels, and two sets of torpedo tubes.
Command	Cook, L. B. Captain from 10 November 1943

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 Newcomb (DD-586) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was launched on 4 July 1943.

The Navy commissioned Newcomb on 10 November 1943. L. B. Cook was her captain from that day, when her service began.

On 25 October 1944, Newcomb took part in the Battle of Surigao Strait. In that battle she was on the left flank.

Newcomb survived the war. The destroyer commissioned in November 1943 came through the Surigao Strait action and was still in existence when the fighting ended.

In October 1947 the hull was scrapped. That disposal closed the career of the ship launched in the summer of 1943 and placed in commission that November.

The pictures on this page are the originals.