USS Halsey Powell DD686
Navy | US Navy |
Type | Destroyer |
Class | Fletcher |
Pennant | DD 686 |
Built by | Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Staten Island, New York, U.S.A.) |
Laid down | 3 Feb 1943 |
Launched | 30 Jun 1943 |
Commissioned | 25 Oct 1943 |
Decommissioned | 10 December 1946. |
History | On the 20th March 1945
Japanese aircraft attacked Fires were put out, and although
12 were killed and over 30 wounded in the
attack the ship reached Ulithi on 25 March. Re-commissioned 27 April 1951. Decommissioned in 1968. Transferred to South Korea 27 April 1968 being renamed Seoul. Seoul was stricken and scrapped in 1982. |