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Eisele

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ClassEvarts class
TypeDestroyer escort (DE)
HullDE-34
BuilderMare Island Navy Yard
Launched1943-06-29
Commissioned1943-10-18
FateAfloat. Her commissioned service ended on 16 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.

Eisele
U.S. Navy. USS Eisele (DE-34) underway at sea, circa in 1944.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Eisele, hull DE-34, belonged to the Evarts class of destroyer escorts. Mare Island Navy Yard laid her down on 23 January 1943 and launched her on 29 June 1943. The Navy commissioned her on 18 October 1943. Her first commanding officer was Lieutenant Commander Elmer Cecil Long.

Her Pacific duty took her to Funafuti, the Gilbert Islands, Tarawa, and the Marshall Islands.

Her commissioned service ended on 16 November 1945.

The pictures on this page are the originals.