Allied Warships

USS Woodworth (DD 460)

Destroyer of the Bristol class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Bristol
Pennant	DD 460
Built by	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered	1 Jul 1940
Laid down	13 Jan 1941
Launched	29 Nov 1941
Commissioned	30 Apr 1942
End service	6 Apr 1946
History	Decommissioned 6 April 1946. Stricken 22 January 1951. To Italy 15 January 1951 being renamed Artigliere. Artigliere was stricken and scrapped in 1971.

Commands listed for USS Woodworth (DD 460)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Richard Christopher Webb, Jr., USN	30 Apr 1942	4 Jan 1943
2	T/Cdr Virgil Francis Gordinier, USN	4 Jan 1943	13 Aug 1943 (1)
3	T/Lt.Cdr. Charles Robert Stephan, USN	13 Aug 1943	1 Nov 1944 (1)
4	T/Lt.Cdr. William Paden Mack, USN	1 Nov 1944	6 Apr 1946 (1)

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Notable events involving Woodworth include:

30 Jun 1943
Strafed by Japanese Aircraft only minor damage caused and only one of the crew were wounded.

22 Aug 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. C. Wellborn, Jr., USN) topped off three of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Woodworth (Lt.Cdr. W.P. Mack, USN), USS Stockham (Cdr. D.L. Moody, USN) and USS Twining (Cdr. F.V. List, USN), with fuel. Following the fuelling of these destroyers Iowa herself was fuelled by the oiler USS Kennebago (Lt.Cdr. C.W. Brockway, USNR).