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Fair

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ClassEvarts class
TypeDestroyer escort (DE)
HullDE-35
BuilderMare Island Navy Yard
Launched1943-07-27
Commissioned1943-10-23
FateAfloat. Her commissioned service ended on 17 November 1945. The Army received her later.
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.

Fair
U.S. Navy. USS Fair (DE-35) after her launch at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 27 July 1943.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Fair, hull DE-35, belonged to the Evarts class of destroyer escorts. Mare Island Navy Yard laid her down on 24 February 1943 and launched her on 27 July 1943. The Navy commissioned her on 23 October 1943. Her first commanding officer was Lieutenant Douglas Schocke Crocker.

Her Pacific duty took her to Tarawa, Majuro, Eniwetok, and Saipan.

Her commissioned service ended on 17 November 1945. The Army received her later.

The pictures on this page are the originals.