Allied Warships

USS Welles (ii) (DD 628)

Destroyer of the Bristol class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Bristol
Pennant	DD 628
Built by	Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.)
Ordered	16 Dec 1940
Laid down	27 Sep 1941
Launched	7 Sep 1942
Commissioned	16 Aug 1943
End service	4 Feb 1946
History	Decommissioned 4 February 1946. Stricken 1 March 1968. Sold 18 July 1969 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Welles (ii) (DD 628)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Doyle Murray Coffee, USN	16 Aug 1943	24 Aug 1944
2	John Sim Slaughter, USN	24 Aug 1944	2 Jan 1946

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Notable events involving Welles (ii) include:

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.