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Cloues

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ClassEvarts class
TypeDestroyer escort (DE)
HullDE-265
BuilderBoston Navy Yard
Launched1943-04-06
Commissioned1943-08-10
FateAfloat. Her commissioned service ended on 26 November 1945.
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.

Cloues
U.S. Navy. USS Cloues (DE-265) underway in San Francisco Bay on 2 February 1944 (19-N-65251).jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Cloues, hull DE-265, belonged to the Evarts class of destroyer escorts. Boston Navy Yard laid her down on 23 February 1943 and launched her on 6 April 1943. The Navy commissioned her on 10 August 1943. Her first commanding officer was Commander William Stamps Howard Jr.

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

Her commissioned service ended on 26 November 1945.

The pictures on this page are the originals.