Allied Warships

USS Rowe (DD 564)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 564
Built by	Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	7 Dec 1942
Launched	30 Sep 1943
Commissioned	13 Mar 1944
End service	6 Nov 1959
History	Decommissioned 31 January 1947. Recommissioned 5 October 1951. Decommissioned 6 November 1959. Stricken 1 December 1974. Sunk as a target off the coast of Puerto Rico 23 February 1978.

Commands listed for USS Rowe (DD 564)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Andrew Lee Young, Jr., USN	13 Mar 1944	19 Jan 1946

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Notable events involving Rowe include:

6 Jul 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. Holloway, Jr., USN) topped off four of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Melvin (Cdr. B.K. Atkins, USN), USS McGowan (Lt.Cdr. T.H.W. Conner, USN), USS Monssen (Lt.Cdr. E.G. Sanderson, USN) and USS Rowe (Cdr. A.L. Young, Jr., USN), with fuel.