Allied Warships

USS Murphy (DD 603)

Destroyer of the Bristol class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Bristol
Pennant	DD 603
Built by	Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Staten Island, New York, U.S.A.)
Ordered	16 Dec 1940
Laid down	19 May 1941
Launched	29 Apr 1942
Commissioned	27 Jul 1942
End service	9 Mar 1946
History	Decommissioned 9 March 1946. Stricken 1 November 1970. Sold 6 October 1972 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Murphy (DD 603)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lcmdr Leonard Scott Bailey, USNR	23 Jul 1942	11 Feb 1944
2	T/Cdr. Royal Allan Wolverton, USN	11 Feb 1944	28 Jan 1945
3	T/Cdr. Bernard Adrian Smith, USN	28 Jan 1945	1 Jan 1946

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Notable events involving Murphy include:

Benson Class not a Bristol

21 Oct 1943
USS Murphy was rammed off New York by the tanker Bulkoil. The forward section of the ship sank, taking 36 officers and men with it. The stern section was towed to the New York Navy yard where a new forward section was fitted. In all the repairs took some 7 months.