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Brackett

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ClassEvarts class
TypeDestroyer escort (DE)
HullDE-41
BuilderPuget Sound Navy Yard
Launched1943-08-01
Commissioned1943-10-18
FateAfloat. Her commissioned service ended on 23 November 1945. She went to the breakers later.
Armament (class)Short-hull destroyer escort. Three 3-inch guns and one funnel. No torpedo tubes.
Command

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

Brackett
Bill Roberts, U.S. Navy. USS Brackett (DE-41) in a floating dry dock in the Marshall Islands, circa in May 1944.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Brackett, hull DE-41, belonged to the Evarts class of destroyer escorts. Puget Sound Navy Yard laid her down on 12 January 1943 and launched her on 1 August 1943. The Navy commissioned her on 18 October 1943. Her first commanding officer was Lieutenant John Henry Roskilly Jr.

Her Pacific duty took her to the Marshall Islands, Funafuti, Majuro, and the Gilbert Islands. She was credited with 3 battle stars.

Her commissioned service ended on 23 November 1945. She went to the breakers later.

The pictures on this page are the originals.