Allied Warships

USS Boyd (DD 544)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 544
Built by	Bethlehem Steel Corp. (San Pedro, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	2 Apr 1942
Launched	29 Oct 1942
Commissioned	8 May 1943
End service	1 Oct 1969
History	Decommissioned 15 January 1947. Recommissioned 24 November 1950. Decommissioned and stricken on 1 October 1969. Transferred to Turkey on 1 October 1969 being renamed Iskenderun. Iskenderun was stricken and scrapped in 1981.

Commands listed for USS Boyd (DD 544)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Ulysses Simpson Grant Sharp, Jr., USN	8 May 1943	10 Nov 1944
2	T/Cdr. Archibald Egerton Teall, USN	10 Nov 1944

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Notable events involving Boyd include:

19 Jan 1945
USS Balao (Cdr. M.R. de Arellano, USN) ended her 7th war patrol at Guam. She was escorted in by USS Boyd.

At Guam she was refitted by Submarine Division 282 Relief crew and the USS Apollo. Refit was completed on 3 February 1945. Training was carried out during 8 to 19 February 1945.