Allied Warships

USS Young (DD 580)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 580
Built by	Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd. (Orange, Texas, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	7 May 1942
Launched	15 Oct 1942
Commissioned	31 Jul 1943
End service	31 Mar 1946
History	Decommissioned 31 March 1946. Stricken 1 May 1968. Sunk as a target off the Virginia coast on 16 April 1970.

Commands listed for USS Young (DD 580)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. George Bernard Madden, USN	31 Jul 1943	26 Aug 1944
2	T/Cdr. Donald Granville Dockum, USN	26 Aug 1944	15 Nov 1945

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Notable events involving Young include:

13 Nov 1943
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. McCrea, USN) departed Chesapeake Bay for Mers El Kebir, Algeria. She is escorted by USS Cogswell (Cdr. H.T. Deutermann, USN), USS William D. Porter (Cdr. W.A. Walter, USN) and USS Young (Cdr. G.B. Madden, USN).

Iowa had on board President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Chief of Staff Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff of the Army General George C. Marshall, Chief of Naval Operations Ernest King, Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces Henry Arnold, Harry Hopkins to Mers El Kébir, Algeria, This was the first leg of their journey to the Tehran Conference.

For the daily positions of USS Iowa during this passage see the map below.