Destroyer escort (DE) was the United States Navy mid-20th-century classification for a 20-knot (37 km/h; 23 mph) warship designed with the endurance necessary...
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An escort destroyer was a small warship built to full naval standards which was optimised for air-defence and anti-submarine duties in wartime, but which...
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Buckley-class destroyer escorts were 102 destroyer escorts launched in the United States in 1943–44. They served in World War II as convoy escorts and antisubmarine...
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Evarts-class destroyer escorts were destroyer escorts launched in the United States in 1942–44. They served in World War II as convoy escorts and anti-submarine...
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The Edsall-class destroyer escorts were destroyer escorts built primarily for ocean antisubmarine escort service during World War II. The lead ship, USS Edsall...
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Cannon class was a class of destroyer escorts built by the United States primarily for antisubmarine warfare and convoy escort service during World War II...
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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...
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Rudderow-class destroyer escorts were destroyer escorts launched in the United States in 1943 to 1945. Of this class, 22 were completed as destroyer escorts, and...
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The John C. Butler class were destroyer escorts that originated during World War II. The lead ship was USS John C. Butler, commissioned on 31 March 1944...
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In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable, long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle...
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sustained heavy losses in the action, losing two escort carriers, two destroyers, a destroyer escort and numerous aircraft. Over 1,000 Americans died...
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Abukuma-class destroyer escort (or frigate) (Japanese: あぶくま型護衛艦, romanized: Abukumagatagoeikan) is the general-purpose destroyer escort of the Japan Maritime...
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Dealey-class destroyer escorts were the first post-World War II escort ships built for the United States Navy. Slightly faster and larger than the escort destroyers...
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Garcia-class frigate (redirect from Garcia-class destroyer escort)
World War II destroyer escorts (some of which were converted to DERs) and the postwar DE/DEG classes, which were known as ocean escorts despite carrying...
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Ocean escort was a type of United States Navy warship. They were an evolution of the World War II destroyer escort types. The ocean escorts were intended...
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Captain-class frigate (redirect from British Destroyer Escort)
They were drawn from two classes of the American destroyer escort (originally "British Destroyer Escort") classification: 32 of the GMT (Evarts) Type and...
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Evarts-class destroyer escort - 97 built Buckley-class destroyer escort - 148 built Cannon-class destroyer escort - 72 built Edsall-class destroyer escort - 85...
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aircraft, screening destroyers, and destroyer escorts. Of the 151 aircraft carriers built in the U.S. during World War II, 122 were escort carriers, though...
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Escort destroyer (DDE) is a US Navy post World War II classification for destroyers (DD) modified for and assigned to escort fleets. Escort destroyer...
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Action off Cape Bougaroun (section Convoy escorts)
convoy being escorted was attacked by the Luftwaffe, which failed to hit any of the merchant ships but managed to torpedo the destroyer USS Kendrick in...
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USS Slater (redirect from USS Slater (Destroyer Escort))
USS Slater (DE-766) is a Cannon-class destroyer escort that served in the United States Navy and later in the Hellenic (Greek) Navy. Following service...
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USS Buckley (category Buckley-class destroyer escorts)
USS Buckley (DE-51) was the lead ship of her class of destroyer escorts in the service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946. After spending 23...
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The Claud Jones-class destroyer escorts were four destroyer escorts built for the United States Navy in the late 1950s. These ships were a diesel-powered...
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battleships, 27 cruisers, 177 destroyers/destroyer escorts, 39 aircraft carriers (11 fleet carriers, 6 light carriers and 22 escort carriers) and various support...
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Knox-class frigate (redirect from Knox-class destroyer escort)
second-generation anti-submarine warfare (ASW) escorts. Originally laid down as ocean escorts (formerly called destroyer escorts), they were all redesignated as frigates...
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vessels), including; four helicopter destroyers (or helicopter carriers), 36 destroyers, 5 frigates, six destroyer escorts (or frigates), 24 attack submarines...
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threat of the Kriegsmarine's "wolfpack" tactics. Early escort groups often contained destroyers, sloops, naval trawlers and, later, corvettes of differing...
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ship, Asahi, is the third ship to hold the name after the Asahi-class destroyer escort lent from the United States Navy in 1955, and the Imperial Japanese...
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Atago-class destroyer Maya-class destroyer Akizuki-class destroyer (2010) Asahi-class destroyer Isuzu-class destroyer escort Chikugo-class destroyer escort Ishikari-class...
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be used to escort convoys of merchant marine ships. Destroyer escort may also refer to: Abukuma-class destroyer escort, a destroyer escort class of the...
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