USS Halsey Powell  DD686

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Navy US Navy
Type Destroyer
Class Fletcher 
Pennant DD 686 
Built by Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Staten Island, New York, U.S.A.) 
Laid down 3 Feb 1943 
Launched 30 Jun 1943 
Commissioned 25 Oct 1943 
Decommissioned  10 December 1946.
   
History On the 20th March 1945 Japanese aircraft attacked Fires were put out, and although 12 were killed and over 30 wounded in the attack the ship reached Ulithi on 25 March.
Re-commissioned 27 April 1951.
Decommissioned in 1968.
Transferred to South Korea 27 April 1968 being renamed Seoul. Seoul was stricken and scrapped in 1982.

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