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Cecil J. Doyle

Class	John C. Butler class
Type	Destroyer escort (DE)
Hull	DE-368
Builder	Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
Launched	1944-07-01
Commissioned	1944-10-16
Fate	Afloat. Her commissioned service ended on 2 July 1946. The Navy later expended her as a target.
Armament (class)	Destroyer escort. Two 5-inch guns and one funnel, on a shorter hull.
Command	Crocker, Douglas Shocke Commanding officer from 16 October 1944

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.

Cecil J. Doyle, hull DE-368, belonged to the John C. Butler class of destroyer escorts. Consolidated Steel Corporation, at Orange, Texas, laid her down on 12 May 1944 and launched her on 1 July 1944. The Navy commissioned her on 16 October 1944. Her first commanding officer was Lieutenant Commander Douglas Shocke Crocker.

Her Pacific duty took her to Eniwetok, the Marshall Islands, Guam, and Ulithi.

Her commissioned service ended on 2 July 1946. The Navy later expended her as a target.

The pictures on this page are the originals.