Allied Warships

USS Watts (DD 567)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 567
Built by	Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	26 Mar 1943
Launched	31 Dec 1943
Commissioned	29 Apr 1944
End service	26 Sep 1969
History	Decommissioned 12 April 1946. Recommissioned 6 July 1951. Decommissioned 26 September 1969. Stricken 1 February 1974. Sold 16 August 1974 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Watts (DD 567)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Joseph Benedict Maher, USN	29 Apr 1944	27 Jan 1945
2	Charles Samuel Hart, USN	27 Jan 1945	12 Apr 1946

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Notable events involving Watts include:

7 Jun 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. Holloway, Jr., USN) topped off three of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Uhlmann (Cdr. S.C. Small, USN), USS Watts (Lt.Cdr. C.S. Hart, USN) and USS Melvin (Cdr. B.K. Atkins, USN), with fuel.

4 Jul 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. Holloway, Jr., USN) topped off three of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Wren (Cdr. E.A. McDonald, USN), USS Watts (Lt.Cdr. C.S. Hart, USN) and USS Remey (Lt.Cdr. J.B. Balch, USN), with fuel.