Allied Warships

USS Kalk (ii) (DD 611)

Destroyer of the Bristol class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Bristol
Pennant	DD 611
Built by	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered	16 Dec 1940
Laid down	30 Jun 1941
Launched	18 Jul 1942
Commissioned	17 Oct 1942
End service	3 May 1946
History	Decommissioned 3 May 1946. Stricken 1 June 1968. Sunk as a target off the coast of Florida 20 March 1969.

Commands listed for USS Kalk (ii) (DD 611)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Charles Tod Singleton, Jr., USN	17 Oct 1942	26 Aug 1943
2	T/Lt.Cdr. Harold Douglas Fuller, USN	26 Aug 1943	11 Nov 1944
3	Charles Anthony Marinke, USN	11 Nov 1944	3 May 1946

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Notable events involving Kalk (ii) include:

31 May 1943
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. McCrea, USN) departed Gravesend Bay for Casco Bay, Maine. She was escorted by USS Hobby (Cdr. E. Blake, USN), USS Kalk (Cdr. C.T. Singleton, Jr., USN) and USS Gillespie (Cdr. C.C. Clement, USN).

2 Jan 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. McCrea, USN) departed Hampton Roads, Virginia for the Panama Canal Zone. Iowa is proceed to the Pacific.

Passage was made together with sister ship USS New Jersey (Capt. C.F. Holden, USN). The battleships were escorted by ComDesDiv 38; USS Welles (Cdr. D.M. Coffee, USN), USS Gillespie (Cdr. J.S. Fahy, USN), USS Hobby (Cdr. G.W. Pressy, USN) and USS Kalk (Lt.Cdr. H.D. Fuller, USN).

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