Allied Warships

USS Colahan (DD 658)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 658
Built by	Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Staten Island, New York, U.S.A.)
Ordered	15 Dec 1941
Laid down	24 Oct 1942
Launched	3 May 1943
Commissioned	23 Aug 1943
End service	1 Aug 1966
History	Decommissioned 14 June 1946. Recommissioned 16 December 1950. Decommissioned 1 August 1966. Stricken 1 August 1966. Sunk as a target off the coast of California 18 December 1966.

Commands listed for USS Colahan (DD 658)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Donald Taylor Wilber, USN	23 Aug 1943	30 Jan 1945
2	T/Lt.Cdr. Martin Adam Shellabarger, USN	30 Jan 1945	30 Jun 1945
3	Frank Dolan Whalen, USN	30 Jun 1945	14 Jun 1946

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Notable events involving Colahan include:

25 Oct 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) fuelled the destroyers, USS Colahan (Cdr. D.T. Wilber, USN) and USS Tingey (Cdr. J.O. Miner, USN). Upon completion of the fuelling Iowa and other units of the Task Group formed Task Unit 34.5 and proceeded south at high speed (28 knots) towards San Bernardino Strait in the hope of intercepting the enemy force approaching that strait from the southward.

Task Unit 34.5 was made up of battleships USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN), USS New Jersey (Capt. C.F. Holden, USN), light cruisers USS Vincennes (Capt. A.D. Brown, USN), USS Biloxi (Capt. D.M. McGurl, USN), USS Miami (Capt. J.G. Crawford, USN), destroyers USS Miller (Lt.Cdr. D.L. Johnson, USN), USS Owen (Cdr. C.B.Jones, USN), USS Tingey (Cdr. J.O. Miner, USN), USS The Sullivans (Cdr. R.J. Baum, USN) and USS Lewis Hancock (Cdr. W.M. Searles, USN).

9 Jul 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. Holloway, Jr., USN) topped off four of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Cushing (Lt.Cdr. W.D. Adams, USN), USS Stockham (Cdr. D.L. Moody, USN), USS Uhlmann (Cdr. S.C. Small, USN) and USS Colahan (Cdr. M.A. Shellabarger, USN), with fuel.

11 Jul 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. Holloway, Jr., USN) topped off four of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Cushing (Lt.Cdr. W.D. Adams, USN), USS McGowan (Lt.Cdr. T.H.W. Conner, USN), USS Colahan (Cdr. M.A. Shellabarger, USN) and USS Melvin (Cdr. B.K. Atkins, USN), with fuel.

23 Jul 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. Holloway, Jr., USN) topped off four of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Melvin (Cdr. B.K. Atkins, USN), USS Colahan (Cdr. M.A. Shellabarger, USN), USS McDermut (Cdr. C.B. Jennings, USN) and USS McGowan (Lt.Cdr. T.H.W. Conner, USN), with fuel.

6 Aug 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. C. Wellborn, Jr., USN) topped off three of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Cushing (Lt.Cdr. W.D. Adams, USN), USS Colahan (Cdr. M.A. Shellabarger, USN) and USS McGowan (Lt.Cdr. T.H.W. Conner, USN), with fuel.

17 Aug 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. C. Wellborn, Jr., USN) topped off two of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Cushing (Lt.Cdr. W.D. Adams, USN) and USS Colahan (Cdr. M.A. Shellabarger, USN), with fuel.