Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Contributed By
	82k	Artist's conception of the Owen as she appeared after original construction by the renowned graphic illustrator John Barrett with the text written by naval author and historian Robert F. Sumrall. Their company Navy Yard Associates offers prints of most destroyers, destroyer escorts, submarines and aircraft carriers in various configurations during the ship's lifetime. The prints can be customized with ship's patches, your photograph, your bio, etc. If you decide to purchase artwork from them please indicate that you heard about their work from NavSource.		Navy Yard Associates
	27k	Undated postcard, location unknown.		Bill Owen
	172k	Undated, location unknown.		Ed Zajkowski
	129k	USS Owen (DD-536) underway at very slow speed, circa 1945. This image was retouched by wartime censors to remove radar antennas from the foremast and atop the Mark 37 gun director. They also partially removed nearly all of the small mainmast mounted on the after superstructure, but missed the antenna at its top. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo #: NH 107249.		Robert Hurst
	95k	Stern view of USS Owen (DD 536) off Mare Island on 24 Aug 1945. She was in overhaul at Mare Island from 9 July to 1 Sep 1945.		Darryl Baker
	137k	Amidships looking aft plan view of USS Owen (DD 536) with USS Miller (DD 535) to the right and USS Ellet (DD 398) to the left at Mare Island on 29 Aug 1945.		Darryl Baker
	183k	Forward plan view of USS Owen (DD 536) with USS Miller (DD 535) above and USS Ellet (DD 398) below at Mare Island on 29 Aug 1945.		Darryl Baker
	307k	USS Owen (DD 536) with USS Miller (DD 535) outboard and USS Ellet (DD 398) inboard at Mare Island on August 29 1945.		Ed Zajkowski
	225k	NavalBase, Los Angeles, Terminal Island, August 17 1951, Vice Admiral J.L. Hall,Commander, Western Sea Frontier and Commander, Pacific Reserve Fleet,addressing audience and crews and Rear Admiral Burton C. Davis, Commander, LongBeach Groups, Pacific Reserve Fleet. during the re-commissioning of three Navy destroyers.Nearest dock is the U.S.S. Owen, outboard of her U.S.S. Prichett and taken fromgun turret of U.S.S. Cushing was the image. Photo courtesy of the USCLibraries Special Collections Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA.		Bill Gonyo
	123k	NavalBase, Los Angeles, Terminal Island, August 17 1951, Vice Admiral J.L. Hall,Commander, Western Sea Frontier and Commander, Pacific Reserve Fleet,addressing audience and crews and Rear Admiral Burton C. Davis, Commander, LongBeach Groups, Pacific Reserve Fleet. during the re-commissioning of three Navydestroyers. Nearest dock is the U.S.S. Owen, outboard of her U.S.S. Prichettand taken from gun turret of U.S.S. Cushing was the image. Photo courtesyof the USC Libraries Special Collections Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA.		Bill Gonyo
	263k	NavalBase, Los Angeles, Terminal Island, August 17 1951, Chaplain Leigh Pink onplatform leads audience and high-ranking officers (left foreground) and crewmembers of three re-commissioned destroyers in invocation at re-commissioningceremonies at Naval Base, Los Angeles, Terminal Island. Photo courtesy of the USC Libraries Special Collections DohenyMemorial Library, Los Angeles, CA.		Bill Gonyo
	59k	USS Owen (DD-536), USS Cowell (DD-547), USS Twining (DD540) and USS Pritchett (DD-561) in Yokosuka, Fall 1959.		Derick Hartshorn
	62k	The USS Owen (DD-536) along with an unidentified destroyer (at extreme right), destroyer escorts and LSTs moored together in the muddy waters of the Napa River at Mare Island in May 1972. Other identifiable ships are USS French (DE-367) and USS Sedgwick County (LST-1123). Courtesy L.Cote. Photo from Warship Boneyards, by Kit and Carolyn Bonner.		Robert Hurst

CDR Robert Winthrop Wood    Sep 20 1943 - Oct 1 1944 (Later RADM)
CDR Carlton Benton Jones    Oct 1 1944 - ? (Later RADM)
(Decommissioned Dec 10 1946 - Aug 17 1951)
CDR Oscar Frank (Big Red) Dreyer    Aug 17 1951 - ?
CDR Lester Earl Hubbell    1953 - ?
CDR Lester E. Hubbell    Sep 9 1953 - Apr 1955 (Later RADM)
CDR John Diroff Malone    1956 - 1957
CDR John Sullivan    1957 - May 27 1958

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