USS Turner (iii) (DD 834)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Gearing
Pennant	DD 834
Built by	Bath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.)
Ordered	14 Jun 1943
Laid down	13 Nov 1944
Launched	8 Apr 1945
Commissioned	12 Jun 1945
End service	26 Sep 1969
History	Reclassified as DDR-834 on 18 March 1949. Reverted back to DD-834 on 1 January 1969. Decommissioned and stricken 26 September 1969. Sold 13 October 1969 and broken up for scrap.

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and that we only list Commanding Officers for the duration of the Second World War.

	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Ellis Brooks Rittenhouse, USN	12 Jun 1945	1 Aug 1947 (1)

2	T/Cdr. Albert Leonard Carlson, USN	16 Oct 1948	6 Jul 1950 (1)
3	T/Cdr. Joseph Seaman Lewis, USN	6 Jul 1950	5 Dec 1951 (1)

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