Allied Warships

USS Butler (DD 636)

Destroyer of the Bristol class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Bristol
Pennant	DD 636
Built by	Philadelphia Navy Yard (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
Ordered	16 Dec 1940
Laid down	16 Sep 1941
Launched	12 Feb 1942
Commissioned	15 Aug 1942
End service	8 Nov 1945
History	Converted to High Speed Minesweeper DMS-29 on 15 November 1944. Heavily damaged by Japanese kamikaze aircraft 25 May 1945 off Okinawa, 9 of her crew were lost. Decommissioned 8 November 1945. Stricken 28 November 1945. Sold 10 January 1948 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Butler (DD 636)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Mitchell Dudley Matthews, USN	15 Aug 1942	17 Sep 1944
2	T/Cdr. Robert Messinger Hinckley, Jr., USN	17 Sep 1944	8 Nov 1945

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Notable events involving Butler include:

16 Dec 1943
HMS Spirit (Lt. A.W. Langridge, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Larne with USS Butler (T/Cdr. M.D. Matthews, USN), USS Doran (T/Cdr. N.E. Smith, USN) and USS Gherardi (T/Cdr. N.R. Curtin, USN). (1)