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Donaldson

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ClassEvarts class
TypeDestroyer escort (DE)
HullDE-44
BuilderPuget Sound Navy Yard
Launched1943-08-01
Commissioned1943-12-01
FateAfloat. Her commissioned service ended on 5 December 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.

Donaldson
U.S. Navy. USS Donaldson (DE-44) underway in Puget Sound on 15 December 1943.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Donaldson, hull DE-44, 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 1 December 1943. Her first commanding officer was Lieutenant Henry L. Plage.

Her Pacific duty took her to the Marshall Islands, Eniwetok, Kwajalein, and the Marianas. She was credited with 7 battle stars.

Her commissioned service ended on 5 December 1945.

The pictures on this page are the originals.