Allied Warships

USS Isherwood (DD 520)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 520
Built by	Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Staten Island, New York, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	12 May 1942
Launched	24 Nov 1942
Commissioned	12 Apr 1943
End service	11 Sep 1961
History	Decommissioned 1 February 1946. Recommissioned 5 April 1951. Decommissioned 11 September 1961. Stricken 15 January 1974. Transferred to Peru on 8 October 1961 being renamed Almirante Guise. Almirante Fuise was stricken and scraped in 1981.

Commands listed for USS Isherwood (DD 520)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Robert Emett Gadrow, USN	12 Apr 1943	11 Apr 1944
2	T/Cdr. Louis Edward Schmidt, Jr., USN	11 Apr 1944	15 Aug 1945
3	Louis Harkey Mayo, USN	15 Aug 1945	1 Feb 1946

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Notable events involving Isherwood include:

28 Aug 1943
HrMs O 15 (Lt.Cdr. A.J. Schouwenaar, RNN) conducted A/S exercises at / off Scapa Flow with HMS Spartan (Capt. P.V. McLaughlin, RN), HMS Hardy (Lt.Cdr. R. Horncastle, RN), HMS Rocket (Lt.Cdr. H.B. Acworth, OBE, RN), HMCS Iroquois (Cdr. J.C. Hibbard DSC, RCN) and USS Isherwood (Cdr. R.E. Gadrow, USN). (1)

3 Sep 1943
HrMs O 15 (Lt.Cdr. A.J. Schouwenaar, RNN) conducted A/S exercises at / off Scapa Flow with ORP Orkan (Cdr. S. Hryniewiecki, ORP), USS Isherwood (Cdr. R.E. Gadrow, USN) and USS Hobson (Lt.Cdr. K. Loveland, USN).

Later she departed Scapa Flow for Lerwick escorted by HMS Loch Monteith (T/Lt. K.W. Richardson, RNR). (1)