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Engstrom

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ClassEvarts class
TypeDestroyer escort (DE)
HullDE-50
BuilderPhiladelphia Navy Yard
Launched1942-07-24
Commissioned1943-06-21
FateAfloat. Her commissioned service ended on 19 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.

Engstrom
USS Engstrom (DE-50) underway off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 27 February 1945 (19-N-79871).jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Engstrom, hull DE-50, belonged to the Evarts class of destroyer escorts. Philadelphia Navy Yard laid her down on 1 April 1942 and launched her on 24 July 1942. The Navy commissioned her on 21 June 1943. Her first commanding officer was Lieutenant Donald Albert Nienstedt.

Her Pacific duty took her to Adak, Attu, and Okinawa.

Her commissioned service ended on 19 December 1945.

The pictures on this page are the originals.