Allied Warships

USS Capps (DD 550)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 550
Built by	Gulf Shipbuilding Corp. (Chickasaw, Alabama, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	12 Jun 1941
Launched	31 May 1942
Commissioned	23 Jun 1943
End service	15 Jan 1947
History	Decommissioned 15 January 1947. Transferred to Spain on 15 May 1957 being renamed Lepanto. Lepanto was stricken on 31 December 1985 and scrapped.

Commands listed for USS Capps (DD 550)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Bruce Edward Scofield Trippensee, USN	23 Jun 1943	24 Oct 1944
2	T/Cdr. James Marshall Wood, USN	24 Oct 1944	6 Nov 1945
3	James W Robertson, USNR	6 Nov 1945	18 Feb 1946

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Notable events involving Capps include:

23 Oct 1943
HMS Tuna (Lt.Cdr.(Retd.) J.R.G. Harvey, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Scapa Flow together with HMS Savage (Cdr. R.C. Gordon, DSO, RN), HMS Scourge (Lt.Cdr. G.I.M. Balfour, RN), HNoMS Stord (Lt.Cdr. S.V. Storheill, RNorN) and USS Capps (Lt.Cdr. B.E.S. Trippensee, USN). (1)