High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Smalley (DD-565), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Ensign Anthony A. Smalley (1836–1894). Smalley was laid down on 14 February 1943 by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation, Seattle, Wash.; launched on 27 October 1943, sponsored by Miss Lina A. Mayo; and commissioned on 31 March 1944, Commander P. H. Horn in command. Following shakedown, the ship and one destroyer got underway on 7 June 1944 to escort three troop transports to Hawaii. The convoy arrived at Pearl Harbor on 11 July 1944. On the 28th, the ship's complement manned the rail for President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he steamed into Pearl Harbor on board the cruiser USS Baltimore (CA-68).

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