Allied Warships

USS Halsey Powell (DD 686)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 686
Built by	Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Staten Island, New York, U.S.A.)
Ordered	14 Jun 1942
Laid down	3 Feb 1943
Launched	30 Jun 1943
Commissioned	25 Oct 1943
End service
History	Decommissioned 10 December 1946. Recommissioned 27 April 1951. Decommissioned in 1968. Transferred to South Korea 27 April 1968 being renamed Seoul. Seoul was stricken and scraped in 1982.

Commands listed for USS Halsey Powell (DD 686)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. William Thomas McGarry, USN	25 Oct 1943	6 Oct 1944
2	T/Cdr. Sidney Douglas Buxton Merrill, USN	6 Oct 1944	30 Sep 1945

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Notable events involving Halsey Powell include:

13 Dec 1943
Around 1715 hours USS Halsey Powell (Cdr. W.T. McGarry, USN), USS Marshall (Cdr. J.D. McKinney, USN), USS Wadleigh (Cdr. W.C. Winn, USN) took over the escort of USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. McCrea, USN) from USS Hall (Cdr. J.F. Delaney, Jr., USN), USS Halligan (Cdr. C.E. Cortner, USN) and USS Macomb (Cdr. J.C. South, USN) which were then detached.

17 Oct 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) fuelled the destroyers, USS Halsey Powell (Cdr. S.D.B. Merrill, USN), USS Tingey (Cdr. J.O. Miner, USN), USS Lewis Hancock (Cdr. W.M. Searles, USN) and USS Hickox (Cdr. J.H. Wesson, USN).

8 Aug 1945
USS Searaven (T/Lt.Cdr. R.C. Smallwood, Jr., USN) conducted A/S excercises off Pearl Harbour with USS Halsey Powell (T/Cdr. S.D.B. Merrill, USN) and USS Strickland (Lt. T.H. Baird, Jr., USNR). (1)