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Name: United States Ship Newcomb.
Type: Destroyer.
Namesake: First Lieutenant Frank Hamilton Newcomb, Revenue-Cutter Service.
Navy Classification: DD 586.
Class: DD 445, Fletcher.
Builder: Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts.
Keel laid: 19 March 1943.
Launched: 4 July 1943.
Commissioned: 10 November 1943.
Disposition: Decommissioned: 20 November 1945; Stricken: 28 March 1946; Sold for scrap: Mare Island Navy Yard, October 1947.