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French

Class	John C. Butler class
Type	Destroyer escort (DE)
Hull	DE-367
Builder	Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
Launched	1944-06-17
Commissioned	1944-10-09
Fate	Afloat. Her commissioned service ended on 29 May 1946. She went to the breakers later.
Armament (class)	Destroyer escort. Two 5-inch guns and one funnel, on a shorter hull.
Command	Dunstan, Thomas Kempshall Commanding officer from 9 October 1944

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.

French, hull DE-367, belonged to the John C. Butler class of destroyer escorts. The name honors Neldon Theo French. Consolidated Steel Corporation, at Orange, Texas, laid her down on 1 May 1944 and launched her on 17 June 1944. The Navy commissioned her on 9 October 1944. Her first commanding officer was Lieutenant Commander Thomas Kempshall Dunstan.

Her Pacific duty took her to Ulithi, Eniwetok, Saipan, and Iwo Jima.

Her commissioned service ended on 29 May 1946. She went to the breakers later.

The pictures on this page are the originals.