Allied Warships

USS Trathen (DD 530)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 530
Built by	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	17 Mar 1942
Launched	22 Oct 1942
Commissioned	28 May 1943
End service	11 May 1965
History	Decommissioned 18 January 1946. Recommissioned 1 August 1951. Decommissioned 11 May 1965. Stricken 1 November 1972. Scrapped in November 1973.

Commands listed for USS Trathen (DD 530)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Alvord John Greenacre, USN	28 May 1943	8 Jan 1944
2	T/Capt. Fondville Lee Tedder, USN	8 Jan 1944	28 Apr 1944
3	T/Cdr. John Raymond Millett, USN	28 Apr 1944	18 Jan 1946

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Notable events involving Trathen include:

29 May 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. Holloway, Jr., USN) topped off two of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Mertz (Cdr. W.S. Maddox, USN) and USS Trathen (Cdr. J.R. Millett, USN), with fuel.