Allied Warships

USS Harrison (DD 573)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 573
Built by	Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd. (Orange, Texas, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	25 Jun 1941
Launched	4 May 1942
Commissioned	25 Jan 1943
End service	1 Apr 1946
History	Decommissioned 1 April 1946. Stricken 19 August 1970. Transferred to Mexico on 1 May 1968 being renamed Cuauhtemoc. Cuauhtemoc was stricken in 1982 and scraped.

Commands listed for USS Harrison (DD 573)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Carl Malcolm Dalton, USN	25 Jan 1943	27 Apr 1944
2	T/Cdr. Walter Vincent Combs, Jr., USN	27 Apr 1944	Feb 1946

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Notable events involving Harrison include:

26 Jun 1943
The battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth (Capt. H.G. Norman, CBE, RN) and light cruiser HMS Phoebe (Capt. C.P. Frend, RN) departed Hampton Roads for Bermuda. They were escorted by the destroyer Harrison (T/Cdr. C.M. Dalton, USN) and the frigates HMS Blackwood (Lt.Cdr. L.T. Sly, RD, RNR) and HMS Drury (Lt.Cdr. N.J. Parker, RN). (1)

28 Jun 1943
HMS Queen Elizabeth (Capt. H.G. Norman, CBE, RN), HMS Phoebe (Capt. C.P. Frend, RN), HMS Blackwood (Lt.Cdr. L.T. Sly, RD, RNR) and HMS Drury (Lt.Cdr. N.J. Parker, RN) arrived at Bermuda from Hampton Roads.

Harrison (T/Cdr. C.M. Dalton, USN) did not enter and set course to proceed to Boston. (2)