This is a list of
destroyer escorts
of the
United States Navy, listed
both by hull number and by name. It includes the
hull classification symbols DE
(both Destroyer Escort and Ocean Escort), DEG, and DER.
The
Lend-lease Act was passed into law in
the USA in March 1941 enabling the United Kingdom
to procure merchant ships, warships and munitions
etc from the USA, in order to help with the war effort. This
enabled the UK to commission the USA 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 January 25, 1943 and taken
over by the
United States
Navy.
In
1975, ships that were classified DE or DEG
were
reclassified
as FF or FFG (
frigates). This affected hull
numbers DE-1037 and higher as well as all DEGs.
See
List of
frigates of the United States Navy
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Evarts DE-5
Destroyer Escorts
Guided Missile Destroyer Escort
Radar Picket Destroyer Escort
See also
References
External links
. When the ships were redesignated FFG, a
patrol frigate design would be re-designated the FFG-7 Oliver Hazard Perry class
frigate.
, the Destroyer Escort Historical
Museum.
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