This is a list of destroyer escorts of the United States Navy, listed in a table sortable by both name and hull-number. It includes the hull classification symbols DE (both Destroyer Escort and Ocean Escort), DEG, and DER.
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Historical overview
editThe Lend-Lease Act was passed into law in the US in March 1941 enabling the United Kingdom to procure merchant ships, warships and munitions etc. from the US, in order to help with the war effort. This enabled the UK to commission the US to design, build and supply an escort vessel that was suitable for anti submarine warfare in deep open ocean situations, which they did in June 1941. Captain E.L. Cochrane of the American Bureau of Shipping came up with a design which was known as the British Destroyer Escort (BDE). The BDE designation was retained by the first six Destroyer Escorts transferred to the United Kingdom (BDE 1, 2, 3, 4, 12 and 46); of the initial order of 50 these were the only ones the Royal Navy received, the rest being reclassified as Destroyer Escort (DE) on 25 January 1943 and taken over by the United States Navy.[1]
Ships that were classified DE or DEG were reclassified in 1975 as FF or FFG (frigates). This affected hull numbers DE-1037 and higher as well as all DEGs.
Classes
edit- 97 Evarts were completed
- 32 converted to Royal Navy Captain-class frigates before commissioning as DEs
- 34 converted to DERs
- 148 Buckleys were completed
- 46 converted to Captains before commissioning as DEs
- 37 reclassified and converted to APDs after having been commissioned as DEs
- 6 in addition to the 148 completed as APDs
- 22 Rudderrow were completed
- 1 converted to APD after commissioning as DE
- 50 additional completed as APDs
- 83 John C. Butler were completed
- 2 converted to DERs
Class | Design type[2] | Lead ship | Commissioned | # Ships ordered[3] | # Ships Completed as US DEs |
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Evarts | GMT | USS Evarts (DE-5) | 15 April 1943 | 105 | 65 |
Buckley | TE | USS Buckley (DE-51) | 30 April 1943 | 154 | 65 |
Cannon | DET | USS Cannon (DE-99) | 26 September 1943 | 116 | 58 |
Edsall | FMR | USS Edsall (DE-129) | 10 April 1943 | 85 | 85 |
Rudderow | TEV | USS Rudderow (DE-224) | 15 May 1944 | 252 | 21 |
John C. Butler | WGT | USS John C. Butler (DE-339) | 31 March 1944 | 293 | 83 |
Dealey | SCB 72 | USS Dealey (DE-1006) | 3 June 1954 | 13 | 13 |
Claud Jones | SCB 131 | USS Claud Jones (DE-1033) | 10 February 1959 | 4 | 4 |
Bronstein | SCB 199 | USS Bronstein (DE-1037) | 16 June 1963 | 2 | 2 |
Garcia | SCB 199A | USS Garcia (DE-1040) | 21 December 1964 | 11 | 11 |
Brooke | SCB 199B | USS Brooke (DEG-1) | 12 March 1966 | 19 | 6 |
Knox | SCB 199C | USS Knox (DE-1052) | 12 April 1969 | 55 | 46 |
Destroyer Escorts (DE)
editName | Hull number | Notes |
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Abercrombie | DE-343 | Sunk as target 7 January 1968 |
Acree | DE-167 | Sold for scrap, 19 July 1973 |
Ahrens | DE-575 | Sold for scrap, 20 January 1967 |
Ainsworth | DE-1090 | Museum ship, Izmir, Turkey (as Turkey: TCG Ege) |
Albert David | DE-1050 | In reserve, (as Brazil: Pará) |
Albert T. Harris | DE-447 | Sunk as target 9 April 1969 |
Alexander J. Luke | DE-577 | Sunk as target, 22 October 1970 |
Alfred Wolf | DE-544 | cancelled |
Alger | DE-101 | Scrapped, 1964 (as Brazil: Babitonga) |
Alvin C. Cockrell | DE-366 | Sunk as target 19 September 1969 |
Aylwin | DE-1081 | Active, (as Taiwan: Ni Yang (F 938)) |
Amesbury | DE-66 | Sold for Scrap. Sank under tow, 1962 |
Amick | DE-168 | Scrapped, 1989 (as Philippine: BRP Datu Sikatuna (PF-5)) |
Andres | DE-45 | Sold for scrap, 1946 |
Arthur L. Bristol | DE-281 | Sold for scrap, 1965 |
Atherton | DE-169 | Active, (as Philippine: BRP Rajah Humabon (PF-11)) |
Austin | DE-15 | Scrapped, 1947 |
Badger | DE-1071 | sunk as a target, 1998 |
Bagley | DE-1069 | Recycled, 2000 |
Baker | DE-190 | Sunk as a target, 1970 (as French: Malgache (F724)) |
Balduck | DE-716 | Sold for scrap, 1976 |
Bangust | DE-739 | Scrapped, 1979 (as Peru: BAP Castilla (F-61)) |
Barber | DE-161 | Struck, 2001 (as Mexico: ARM Coahuila (E21)) |
Barbey | DE-1088 | Active, (as Taiwan: Hwai Yang (FFG-937)) |
Baron | DE-166 | Struck, 1990 (as Uruguay: ROU Uruguay (DE-1)) |
Barr | DE-576 | Sunk as a target, 1963 |
Bassett | DE-672 | Active (as Columbia: ARC Almirante Tono (DT-04)) |
Bates | DE-68 | Sunk by Kamikazes, 1945 |
Bauer | DE-1025 | |
Bayntun | BDE-1 | |
Bazely | BDE-2 | |
Bebas | DE-10 | |
Begor | DE-711 | |
Belet | DE-599 | |
Benner | DE-551 | cancelled |
Berry | BDE-3 | |
Beverly W. Reid | DE-722 | |
Eisele | DE-75 | to Royal Navy as HMS Bickerton (K466) |
Bivin | DE-536 | |
Blackwood | BDE-4 | |
Blair | DE-147 | |
Blakely | DE-1072 | |
Blessman | DE-69 | |
Booth | DE-170 | |
Borum | DE-790 | |
Bostwick | DE-103 | |
Bowen | DE-1079 | |
Bowers | DE-637 | |
Brackett | DE-41 | |
Bradley | DE-1041 | |
Bray | DE-709 | |
Breeman | DE-104 | |
Brennan | DE-13 | |
Brewton | DE-1086 | |
Bridget | DE-1024 | |
Bright | DE-747 | |
Brister | DE-327 | |
Brock | DE-234 | |
Bronstein | DE-189 | |
Bronstein | DE-1037 | |
Brough | DE-148 | |
Brumby | DE-1044 | |
Buckley | DE-51 | |
Bull | DE-52 | |
Bull | DE-693 | |
Bullen | DE-78 | to Royal Navy as HMS Bullen (K469) |
Bunch | DE-694 | |
Burden R. Hastings | DE-19 | |
Burdo | DE-717 | |
Burges | BDE-12 | |
Burke | DE-215 | |
Burrows | DE-105 | |
Byron | DE-79 | to Royal Navy as HMS Byron (K508) |
Cabana | DE-260 | |
Calcaterra | DE-390 | |
Camp | DE-251 | |
Canfield | DE-262 | |
Cannon | DE-99 | |
Capodanno | DE-1093 | |
Carlson | DE-9 | |
Carpellotti | DE-548 | cancelled |
Carpellotti | DE-720 | re-designated as APD-136 |
Carroll | DE-171 | |
Carter | DE-112 | |
Cates | DE-763 | |
Cavallaro | DE-712 | |
Cecil J. Doyle | DE-368 | |
Chaffee | DE-230 | |
Chambers | DE-391 | |
Charles Berry | DE-1035 | |
Charles E. Brannon | DE-446 | |
Charles J. Kimmel | DE-584 | |
Charles Lawrence | DE-53 | |
Charles R. Greer | DE-23 | |
Charles R. Ware | DE-547 | cancelled |
Chase | DE-158 | |
Chatelain | DE-149 | |
Chester T. O'Brien | DE-421 | |
Christopher | DE-100 | |
Clarence L. Evans | DE-113 | |
Claud Jones | DE-1033 | |
Cloues | DE-265 | |
Coates | DE-685 | |
Cockrill | DE-398 | |
Cofer | DE-208 | |
Coffman | DE-191 | |
Conklin | DE-439 | |
Conn | DE-80 | |
Connole | DE-1056 | |
Connolly | DE-306 | |
Cook | DE-714 | |
Cook | DE-1083 | |
Coolbaugh | DE-217 | |
Cooner | DE-172 | |
Corbesier | DE-106 | |
Corbesier | DE-438 | |
Cosby | DE-94 | |
Cotton | DE-81 | |
Courtney | DE-1021 | |
Cranstoun | DE-82 | |
Cread | DE-227 | |
Creamer | DE-308 | cancelled |
Cromwell | DE-1014 | |
Cronin | DE-107 | |
Cronin | DE-704 | |
Crosley | DE-108 | |
Crosley | DE-226 | |
Cross | DE-448 | |
Crouter | DE-11 | |
Crowley | DE-303 | |
Cubitt | DE-83 | |
Currier | DE-700 | |
Curtis W. Howard | DE-752 | cancelled |
Curzon | DE-84 | |
Dakins | DE-85 | |
Dale W. Peterson | DE-337 | |
Damon Cummings | DE-756 | cancelled |
Damon M. Cummings | DE-643 | |
Daniel | DE-335 | |
Daniel A. Joy | DE-585 | |
Daniel T. Griffin | DE-54 | |
Darby | DE-218 | |
Davidson | DE-1045 | |
Day | DE-225 | |
Dealey | DE-1006 | |
Deane | DE-86 | |
Decker | DE-47 | |
Deede | DE-263 | |
Delbert W. Halsey | DE-310 | cancelled |
DeLong | DE-684 | |
Dempsey | DE-26 | |
Dempsey | DE-267 | |
Dennis | DE-405 | |
Dennis J. Buckley | DE-553 | cancelled |
Diachenko | DE-690 | |
Dionne | DE-261 | |
Dobler | DE-48 | |
Doherty | DE-14 | |
Don O. Woods | DE-721 | |
Donald B. Beary | DE-1085 | |
Donaldson | DE-44 | |
Donaldson | DE-55 | to Royal Navy as HMS Byard (K315) |
Donald W. Wolf | DE-713 | |
Doneff | DE-49 | |
Donnell | DE-56 | |
Douglas A. Munro | DE-422 | |
Douglas L. Howard | DE-138 | |
Downes | DE-1070 | |
Doyle C. Barnes | DE-353 | |
Drury | BDE-46 | |
Duffy | DE-27 | |
Dufilho | DE-423 | |
Durant | DE-389 | |
Durik | DE-666 | |
Earheart | DE-603 | |
Earl K. Olsen | DE-765 | |
Earl V. Johnson | DE-702 | |
Earle B. Hall | DE-597 | |
Ebert | DE-74 | to Royal Navy as HMS Bentley (K465) |
Ebert | DE-768 | |
Edgar G. Chase | DE-16 | |
Edmonds | DE-406 | |
Edsall | DE-129 | |
Edward C. Daly | DE-17 | |
Edward H. Allen | DE-531 | |
Edward McDonnell | DE-1043 | |
Edwin A. Howard | DE-346 | |
Eichenberger | DE-202 | |
Eisele | DE-34 | |
Eisner | DE-192 | |
Eisner | DE-269 | |
Ekins | DE-87 | |
Elden | DE-264 | |
Eldridge | DE-173 | |
Elmer Montgomery | DE-1082 | |
Ely | DE-309 | cancelled |
Emery | DE-28 | |
England | DE-635 | |
Engstrom | DE-50 | |
Enright | DE-216 | |
Essington | DE-67 | |
Eugene A. Greene | DE-549 | cancelled |
Eugene E. Elmore | DE-686 | |
Evans | DE-1023 | |
Evarts | DE-5 | |
Everett F. Larson | DE-554 | cancelled |
Eversole | DE-404 | |
Fair | DE-35 | |
Falgout | DE-324 | |
Fanning | DE-1076 | |
Farquhar | DE-139 | |
Fechteler | DE-157 | |
Fessenden | DE-142 | |
Fieberling | DE-640 | |
Finch | DE-328 | |
Finnegan | DE-307 | |
Fiske | DE-143 | |
Fitzroy | DE-88 | |
Flaherty | DE-135 | |
Fleming | DE-32 | |
Fleming | DE-271 | |
Fogg | DE-57 | |
Foreman | DE-633 | |
Formoe | DE-509 | |
Formore | DE-58 | |
Forster | DE-334 | |
Foss | DE-59 | |
Fowler | DE-222 | |
Frament | DE-677 | |
Francis Hammond | DE-1067 | |
Francis M. Robinson | DE-220 | |
Francovich | DE-379 | cancelled |
Francovich | DE-606 | |
Frederick C. Davis | DE-136 | |
French | DE-367 | |
Frost | DE-144 | |
Frybarger | DE-705 | |
Gandy | DE-764 | |
Gantner | DE-60 | |
Garcia | DE-1040 | |
Garfield Thomas | DE-193 | |
Gary | DE-326 | |
Gaynier | DE-751 | |
Gendreau | DE-639 | |
Gentry | DE-349 | |
George | DE-276 | |
George | DE-697 | |
George A. Johnson | DE-583 | |
George E. Davis | DE-357 | |
George M. Campbell | DE-773 | cancelled |
George W. Ingram | DE-62 | |
Gillette | DE-270 | |
Gillette | DE-681 | |
Gilligan | DE-508 | |
Gilmore | DE-18 | |
Glover | DE-1098 | number 1098 being re-used |
Goss | DE-444 | |
Gosselin | DE-710 | |
Grady | DE-445 | |
Gray | DE-1054 | |
Greenwood | DE-679 | |
Greiner | DE-37 | |
Griswold | DE-7 | |
Groves | DE-543 | cancelled |
Gunason | DE-795 | |
Gustafson | DE-182 | |
Gyatt | DE-550 | cancelled |
Haas | DE-424 | |
Haines | DE-792 | |
Halloran | DE-305 | |
Halsted | DE-91 | |
Hammann | DE-131 | |
Hammerberg | DE-1015 | |
Hanna | DE-449 | |
Hargood | DE-573 | |
Harmon | DE-72 | |
Harmon | DE-678 | |
Harold C. Thomas | DE-21 | |
Harold E. Holt | DE-1074 | |
Harold J. Ellison | DE-545 | cancelled |
Harry L. Corl | DE-598 | |
Hartley | DE-1029 | |
Harveson | DE-316 | |
Haverfield | DE-393 | |
Hayter | DE-212 | |
Hemminger | DE-746 | |
Henry R. Kenyon | DE-683 | |
Henry W. Tucker | DE-377 | cancelled |
Hepburn | DE-1055 | |
Herbert C. Jones | DE-137 | |
Herzog | DE-178 | |
Herzog | DE-277 | |
Heyliger | DE-510 | |
Hilbert | DE-742 | |
Hill | DE-141 | |
Hissem | DE-400 | |
Hodges | DE-231 | |
Holder | DE-401 | |
Hollis | DE-794 | |
Holmes | DE-572 | |
Holt | DE-706 | |
Holton | DE-703 | |
Hooper | DE-1026 | |
Hopping | DE-155 | |
Horace A. Bass | DE-691 | |
Hoste | DE-521 | |
Hotham | DE-574 | |
Hova | DE-110 | |
Howard D. Crow | DE-252 | |
Howard F. Clark | DE-533 | |
Hubbard | DE-211 | |
Hunter Marshall | DE-602 | |
Hurst | DE-250 | |
Huse | DE-145 | |
Inch | DE-146 | |
Inglis | DE-525 | |
Inman | DE-526 | |
Ira Jeffery | DE-63 | |
J. Douglas Blackwood | DE-219 | |
J. R. Y. Blakely | DE-140 | |
J. Richard Ward | DE-243 | |
Jaccard | DE-355 | |
Jack C. Robinson | DE-671 | |
Jack Miller | DE-410 | |
Jack W. Wilke | DE-800 | |
Jacob Jones | DE-130 | |
James E. Craig | DE-201 | |
Janssen | DE-396 | |
Jenks | DE-665 | |
Jesse L. Brown | DE-1089 | |
Jesse Rutherford | DE-347 | |
Jobb | DE-707 | |
John C. Butler | DE-339 | |
John J. Powers | DE-528 | |
John J. Van Buren | DE-753 | cancelled |
John L. Williamson | DE-370 | |
John M. Bermingham | DE-530 | |
John P. Gray | DE-673 | |
John Q. Roberts | DE-235 | |
John R. Perry | DE-1034 | |
John Willis | DE-1027 | |
Johnnie Hutchins | DE-360 | |
Jordan | DE-204 | |
Joseph E. Campbell | DE-70 | |
Joseph E. Connolly | DE-450 | |
Joseph Hewes | DE-1078 | |
Joseph M. Auman | DE-674 | |
Joyce | DE-317 | |
Julius A. Raven | DE-600 | |
Keith | DE-241 | |
Kendall C. Campbell | DE-443 | |
Kenneth D. Bailey | DE-552 | cancelled |
Kenneth M. Willett | DE-354 | |
Kephart | DE-207 | |
Keppler | DE-311 | cancelled |
Keppler | DE-375 | cancelled |
Key | DE-348 | |
Kingsmill | DE-280 | |
Kinzer | DE-232 | |
Kirk | DE-1087 | |
Kirkpatrick | DE-318 | |
Kirwin | DE-229 | |
Kleinsmith | DE-376 | |
Kleinsmith | DE-718 | |
Kline | DE-687 | |
Knox | DE-1052 | |
Knudson | DE-591 | |
Koelsch | DE-1049 | |
Koiner | DE-331 | |
Kretchmer | DE-329 | |
Kyne | DE-744 | |
La Prade | DE-409 | |
Lake | DE-301 | |
Lamons | DE-64 | |
Lamons | DE-743 | |
Lang | DE-1060 | |
Laning | DE-159 | |
Lansing | DE-388 | |
Lawford | DE-516 | |
Lawrence C. Taylor | DE-415 | |
Lawson | DE-518 | |
Le Ray Wilson | DE-414 | |
Lee Fox | DE-65 | |
LeHardy | DE-20 | |
Leland E. Thomas | DE-420 | |
Leopold | DE-319 | |
Leslie L.B. Knox | DE-580 | |
Lester | DE-1022 | |
Levy | DE-162 | |
Lewis | DE-535 | |
Liddle | DE-76 | to Royal Navy as HMS Bligh (K467) |
Liddle | DE-206 | |
Lloyd | DE-209 | |
Lloyd E. Acree | DE-356 | |
Lloyd Thomas | DE-312 | cancelled |
Lloyd Thomas | DE-374 | cancelled |
Lockwood | DE-1064 | |
Loeser | DE-680 | |
Loring | DE-520 | |
Lough | DE-586 | |
Louis | DE-517 | |
Lovelace | DE-198 | |
Lovering | DE-39 | |
Lovering | DE-272 | |
Lowe | DE-325 | |
Loy | DE-160 | |
Lyman | DE-302 | |
Mack | DE-358 | |
Major | DE-796 | |
Maloy | DE-791 | |
Manlove | DE-36 | |
Manners | DE-523 | |
Manning | DE-199 | |
Marchand | DE-249 | |
Marocain | DE-109 | |
Marsh | DE-699 | |
Martin | DE-30 | |
Martin H. Ray | DE-338 | |
Marts | DE-174 | |
Marvin Shields | DE-1066 | |
Mason | DE-529 | one of 2 USN ships with a nearly all African-American crew in WW2 |
Maurice J. Manuel | DE-351 | |
McAnn | DE-73 | to Royal Navy as HMS Balfour (K464) |
McAnn | DE-179 | |
McCandless | DE-1084 | |
McClelland | DE-750 | |
McCloy | DE-1038 | |
McConnell | DE-163 | |
McCoy Reynolds | DE-440 | |
McGinty | DE-365 | |
McMorris | DE-1036 | |
McNulty | DE-581 | |
Melvin R. Nawman | DE-416 | |
Menges | DE-320 | |
Merrill | DE-392 | |
Metivier | DE-582 | |
Meyerkord | DE-1058 | |
Micka | DE-176 | |
Miller | DE-1091 | |
Mills | DE-383 | |
Milton Lewis | DE-772 | cancelled |
Mitchell | DE-43 | |
Moinester | DE-1097 | |
Moore | DE-240 | |
Moorsom | DE-522 | |
Mosley | DE-321 | |
Mounsey | DE-524 | |
Muir | DE-770 | |
Myers | DE-595 | |
Myles C. Fox | DE-546 | cancelled |
Naifeh | DE-352 | |
Narborough | DE-569 | |
Neal A. Scott | DE-769 | |
Neuendorf | DE-200 | |
Neunzer | DE-150 | |
Newell | DE-322 | |
Newman | DE-205 | |
Oberrender | DE-344 | |
O'Callahan | DE-1051 | |
Odum | DE-670 | |
O'Flaherty | DE-340 | |
Oliver Mitchell | DE-417 | |
O'Neill | DE-188 | |
O'Reilly | DE-330 | |
Osberg | DE-538 | |
Osmus | DE-701 | |
Osterhaus | DE-164 | |
Oswald | DE-71 | |
Oswald | DE-767 | |
Oswald A. Powers | DE-542 | cancelled |
O'Toole | DE-274 | |
O'Toole | DE-527 | |
Otter | DE-210 | |
Otterstetter | DE-244 | |
Ouellett | DE-1077 | |
Parks | DE-165 | |
Parle | DE-708 | |
Pasley/Lindsay | DE-519 | |
Patterson | DE-1061 | |
Paul | DE-1080 | |
Paul G. Baker | DE-642 | |
Paul G. Baker | DE-755 | cancelled |
Pavlic | DE-669 | |
Peiffer | DE-588 | |
Pennewill | DE-175 | |
Peterson | DE-152 | |
Pettit | DE-253 | |
Pharris | DE-1094 | |
Pillsbury | DE-133 | |
Poole | DE-151 | |
Pope | DE-134 | |
Pratt | DE-363 | |
Presley | DE-371 | |
Price | DE-332 | |
Pride | DE-323 | |
Raby | DE-698 | |
Rall | DE-304 | |
Ramsden | DE-382 | |
Rathburne | DE-1057 | |
Ray K. Edwards | DE-237 | |
Raymond | DE-341 | |
Raymon W. Herndon | DE-688 | |
Reasoner | DE-1063 | |
Redmill | DE-89 | |
Rednour | DE-592 | |
Reeves | DE-156 | |
Register | DE-233 | |
Retalick | DE-90 | |
Reuben James | DE-153 | |
Reybold | DE-177 | |
Reybold | DE-275 | |
Reynolds | DE-42 | |
Rhodes | DE-384 | |
Rich | DE-695 | |
Richard M. Rowell | DE-403 | |
Richard S. Bull | DE-402 | |
Richard W. Suesens | DE-342 | |
Richey | DE-385 | |
Ricketts | DE-254 | |
Riddle | DE-185 | |
Riley | DE-579 | |
Rinehart | DE-196 | |
Ringness | DE-590 | |
Riou | DE-92 | |
Rizzi | DE-537 | |
Roark | DE-1053 | |
Robert Brazier | DE-345 | |
Robert E. Peary | DE-132 | |
Robert E. Peary | DE-1073 | |
Robert F. Keller | DE-419 | |
Robert I. Paine | DE-578 | |
Roberts | DE-749 | |
Roche | DE-197 | |
Rogers Blood | DE-555 | cancelled |
Rogers Blood | DE-605 | |
Rolf | DE-362 | |
Rombach | DE-364 | |
Rowley | DE-95 | |
Roy O. Hale | DE-336 | |
Ruchamkin | DE-228 | |
Rudderow | DE-224 | |
Runels | DE-793 | |
Rupert | DE-96 | |
Russell M. Cox | DE-774 | cancelled |
Rutherford | DE-93 | |
Sample | DE-1048 | |
Samuel B. Roberts | DE-413 | |
Samuel S. Miles | DE-183 | |
Sanders | DE-273 | |
Sanders | DE-40 | |
Savage | DE-386 | |
Schmitt | DE-676 | |
Scott | DE-214 | |
Scribner | DE-689 | |
Scroggins | DE-799 | |
Sederstrom | DE-31 | |
Seid | DE-256 | |
Sellstrom | DE-255 | |
Seymour | DE-98 | |
Sheehan | DE-541 | cancelled |
Shelton | DE-407 | |
Silverstein | DE-534 | |
Sims | DE-154 | |
Slater | DE-766 | |
Sloat | DE-245 | |
Smartt | DE-257 | |
Snowden | DE-246 | |
Snyder | DE-745 | |
Solar | DE-221 | |
Somali | DE-111 | |
Spangenberg | DE-223 | |
Spangler | DE-696 | |
Spragge | DE-563 | |
Stadtfeld | DE-29 | |
Stafford | DE-411 | |
Stanton | DE-247 | |
Stayner | DE-564 | |
Steele | DE-8 | |
Stein | DE-1065 | |
Steinaker | DE-452 | cancelled |
Stern | DE-187 | |
Stewart | DE-238 | |
Stockdale | DE-399 | |
Stockham | DE-97 | |
Straub | DE-77 | to Royal Navy as HMS Braithwaite (K468) |
Straub | DE-181 | |
Straus | DE-408 | |
Strickland | DE-333 | |
Sturtevant | DE-239 | |
Sutton | DE-286 | cancelled |
Sutton | DE-771 | |
Swasey | DE-248 | |
Swearer | DE-186 | |
Swenning | DE-394 | |
Tabberer | DE-418 | |
Tatum | DE-789 | |
Taussig | DE-1030 | |
Thaddeus Parker | DE-369 | |
Thomas | DE-102 | |
Thomas C. Hart | DE-1092 | |
Thomas F. Nickel | DE-587 | |
Thomas J. Gary | DE-61 | |
Thomason | DE-203 | |
Thornborough | DE-565 | |
Thornhill | DE-195 | |
Tills | DE-748 | |
Tinsman | DE-589 | |
Tisdale | DE-33 | |
Tisdale | DE-278 | |
Tollberg | DE-593 | |
Tomich | DE-242 | |
Torrington | DE-568 | |
Traw | DE-350 | |
Trippe | DE-1075 | |
Trollope | DE-566 | |
Truett | DE-1095 | |
Trumpeter | DE-180 | |
Trumpeter | DE-279 | |
Truxtun | DE-282 | |
Tweedy | DE-532 | |
Tyler | DE-567 | |
Ulvert M. Moore | DE-442 | |
Underhill | DE-682 | |
Upham | DE-283 | |
Valdez | DE-1096 | |
Vammen | DE-644 | |
Van Hoorhis | DE-1028 | |
Vance | DE-387 | |
Vandivier | DE-540 | |
Varian | DE-798 | |
Voge | DE-1047 | |
Vogelgesang | DE-284 | cancelled |
Vreeland | DE-1068 | |
Wagner | DE-539 | |
Waldegrave | DE-570 | |
Walsh | DE-601 | |
Walter B. Cobb | DE-596 | |
Walter C. Wann | DE-412 | |
Walter S. Brown | DE-258 | |
Walter S. Gorka | DE-604 | |
Walter X. Young | DE-715 | |
Walter X. Young | DE-723 | |
Walton | DE-361 | |
Wantuck | DE-692 | |
Waterman | DE-740 | |
Weaver | DE-741 | |
Weber | DE-675 | |
Weeden | DE-797 | |
Weeks | DE-285 | cancelled |
Weiss | DE-378 | |
Weiss | DE-719 | |
Wesson | DE-184 | |
Whipple | DE-1062 | |
Whitaker | DE-571 | |
Whitehurst | DE-634 | |
Whitman | DE-24 | |
Wileman | DE-22 | |
Wilhoite | DE-397 | |
Willard Keith | DE-754 | cancelled |
Willard Keith | DE-314 | cancelled |
William C. Cole | DE-641 | |
William C. Lawe | DE-313 | cancelled |
William C. Lawe | DE-373 | cancelled |
William C. Miller | DE-259 | |
William J. Pattison | DE-594 | |
William M. Hobby | DE-236 | |
William M. Wood | DE-287 | cancelled |
William M. Wood | DE-557 | cancelled |
William R. Rush | DE-288 | cancelled |
William R. Rush | DE-556 | cancelled |
William S. Sims | DE-1059 | |
William Seiverling | DE-441 | |
William T. Powell | DE-213 | |
Williams | DE-290 | cancelled |
Williams | DE-372 | |
Willis | DE-395 | |
Willmarth | DE-638 | |
Wingfield | DE-194 | |
Wintle | DE-25 | |
Wintle | DE-266 | |
Wiseman | DE-667 | |
Witter | DE-636 | |
Woodrow R. Thompson | DE-451 | cancelled |
Woodson | DE-359 | |
Wyffels | DE-6 | |
Wyman | DE-38 | |
Yokes | DE-668 | |
DE-114 to DE-128 | Cancelled Cannon-class vessels, unnamed | |
DE-289 | Cancelled Rudderow-class vessel, unnamed | |
DE-291 to DE-300 | Cancelled Rudderow-class vessels, unnamed | |
DE-315 | Cancelled Evarts-class vessel, unnamed | |
DE-380 to DE-381 | Cancelled John C. Butler-class vessels, unnamed | |
DE-425 to DE-437 | Cancelled John C. Butler-class vessels, unnamed | |
DE-453 to DE-507 | Cancelled John C. Butler-class vessels, unnamed | |
DE-511 to DE-515 | Cancelled John C. Butler-class vessels, unnamed | |
DE-558 to DE-562 | Cancelled John C. Butler-class vessels, unnamed | |
DE-607 to DE-632 | Cancelled Rudderow-class vessels, unnamed | |
DE-645 to DE-664 | Cancelled Rudderow-class vessels, unnamed | |
DE-724 to DE-738 | Cancelled Rudderow-class vessels, unnamed | |
DE-757 to DE-762 | Cancelled Cannon-class vessels, unnamed | |
DE-775 to DE-788 | Cancelled Cannon-class vessels, unnamed | |
DE-801 to DE-904 | Cancelled John C. Butler-class vessels, unnamed | |
DE-905 to DE-1005 | Cancelled Rudderow-class vessels, unnamed | |
DE-1007 to DE-1013 | Le Normand-class, paid for by United States Navy and built in France to a French design for the Marine Nationale | |
DE-1016 to DE-1019 | Le Corse-class, paid for by United States Navy and built in France to a French design for the Marine Nationale | |
DE-1020 | Canopo-class, paid for by the United States Navy and built in Italy to an Italian design for the Italian Navy | |
DE-1031 | Canopo-class, paid for by the United States Navy and built in Italy to an Italian design for the Italian Navy | |
DE-1032 | NRP Pêro Escobar, paid for by the United States Navy and built in Italy to an Italian design for the Portuguese Navy | |
DE-1039 | Admiral Pereira da Silva-class, paid for by the United States Navy and built in Italy to an Italian design for the Portuguese Navy | |
DE-1042 | Admiral Pereira da Silva-class, paid for by the United States Navy and built in Italy to an Italian design for the Portuguese Navy | |
DE-1046 | Admiral Pereira da Silva-class, paid for by the United States Navy and built in Italy to an Italian design for the Portuguese Navy | |
DE-1098 to DE-1100 | Cancelled Knox-class vessels, unnamed | |
DE-1101 | Cancelled, unnamed. Planned as experimental gas turbine ship.[4] | |
DE-1102 to DE-1107 | Cancelled Knox-class vessels, unnamed |
Guided missile Destroyer Escorts (DEG)
edit- (DEG-1) Brooke
- (DEG-2) Ramsey
- (DEG-3) Schofield
- (DEG-4) Talbot
- (DEG-5) Richard L. Page
- (DEG-6) Julius A. Furer
- DEG-7 through 13 The ships were redesignated FFG, a patrol frigate design would be re-designated the FFG-7 Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate.
Radar picket Destroyer Escorts (DER)
editDuring World War II seven DEs would be converted to this role, and during the Cold War another 36 would be converted. All would be replaced by more modern radar by 1965.[5]
High Speed Transports (APD)
editDuring World War II 94 DEs would be converted to High Speed Transports for amphibious assaults and raids; in 1969 all surviving ships would be reclassified as Fast Amphibious Transports (LPR).[6]
See also
edit- Captain class frigate Captain class was the name the Royal Navy gave to Destroyer escorts.
- List of frigate classes
- List of frigates of the United States Navy subset of above with hull numbers DE/FF 1037 and higher plus all DEG/FFGs because of the United States Navy 1975 ship reclassification
- High-speed transport
- Crosley-class high speed transport - APDs converted from Rudderow-class DEs
- List of United States Navy amphibious warfare ships § High-speed Transport (APD)
- List of United States Navy amphibious warfare ships § Amphibious Transport, Small (LPR) - APDs reclassed as LPRs in 1969
- List of United States Navy ships
- List of United States Navy losses in World War II § Destroyer escorts (DE) - abbreviated list
- List of US Navy ships sunk or damaged in action during World War II § Destroyer, escort vessel (DE) - detailed list
- Modern naval tactics
- Ship Characteristics Board - aka SCB
References
edit- ^ The Buckley-Class Destroyer Escorts by Bruce Hampton Franklin, published by Chatham Publishing (1999), ISBN 1-86176-118-X page 7
- ^ U.S. Destroyers, an illustrated design history by Norman Friedman, ISBN 1-55750-442-3 Chapter 7
- ^ Allied Escort Ships of World War II by Peter Elliott, ISBN 0-356-08401-9 page 453
- ^ DE-1101
- ^ Friedman, Destroyers, pp 230-233
- ^ Friedman, Destroyers, pp 524, 532
External links
edit- http://www.desausa.org/ Destroyer Escort Sailors Association (DESA).
- http://www.ussslater.org/ USS Slater, the Destroyer Escort Historical Museum.
- Destroyer escort Slater photos on board the destroyer escort USS Slater DE-766
- WWII destroyer escort photos Photos of life on board the destroyer escort USS Bangust DE-739 in World War II
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070301070801/http://www.captainclassfrigates.co.uk/ the Captain Class Frigates Association.
- http://www.uboat.net/
- Canceled destroyer escorts hull numbers information
- Canceled destroyer escorts hull numbers information (DE-1098 to DE-1107)
Museum ships
- USS Ainsworth (DE-1090) - İnciraltı Sea Museum, İzmir, Turkey
- USS Slater (DE-766) - Destroyer Escort Historical Museum, Albany, NY
- USS Stewart (DE–238) - Galveston Naval Museum, Galveston, TX