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-' The History of the COTTEN USS COTTEN CDDg669D, 21 2100-ton :legs troyer of the Fletcher Class, was built by the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. of Kearny, NJ. Her keel was laid on 8 February 1943 and only 166 days were required before she was launched 12 June 1943. This represented a construction Eiicord for a ship of her class. On hand to christen the ship was Mrs. Bessie Henderson Cotten, widow of the late CAPT Lyman Atkinson Cgtten, after whom the ship was named. 5 The COTTEN was eommissioned 24 july 1943 and, after a brief shakedown cruise, was on her 'way to Pearl Harbor. In mid-November 1943 she joined her first task force and saw much action in the Pacific Theater. In December 1945 CUTTEN was ordered into the Mothba1l Fleet at Charleston, S.C. On 15 july 1946, at the outbreak of hostilities in Korea, USS COTTEN was recommissioned a member of Destroyer Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Recommis- sioning ceremonies took place at Charleston 3 july 1951 with Mr. A.T. Smythe, a prominent lawyer, as guest speaker. COTTEN departed Newport, RJ., in May 1953 for the Far East via the Panama Operating out of Japan she spent four months in the KOICBH Theater where she supported United Nations Forces with famed Fast Carrier Task Force '77 and Blockadirlg SHCTES' corting Task Force 95. From Sasebo, japan, via the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea, she returned to Newport to complete her around-the-World-Cl'l1iSC in Janurary 1954. After the world cruise, COTTEN served with various units of the Atlantic Fleet on training opera- tions until ordered to the Mediterranean for a tour of duty with the US. Sixth Fleet, The story of that cruise...
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