Allied Warships

USS Laws (DD 558)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 558
Built by	Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	19 May 1942
Launched	22 Apr 1943
Commissioned	18 Nov 1943
End service	30 Mar 1964
History	Decommissioned 10 December 1946. Recommissioned 2 November 1951. Decommissioned 30 March 1964. Stricken 15 April 1973. Sold 3 December 1973 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Laws (DD 558)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Lester Orin Wood, USN	18 Nov 1943	24 Sep 1945
2	Lcmdr Robert Edward Sinnott, USN	24 Sep 1945	10 Dec 1946

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Notable events involving Laws include:

4 Aug 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. McCrea, USN) topped off four of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Morrison (Cdr. W.H. Price, USN), USS The Sullivans (Cdr. K.M. Gentry, USN), USS Laws (Cdr. L.O. Wood, USN) and USS Miller (Cdr. T.H. Kobey, USN), with fuel.