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Gendreau

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ClassBuckley class
TypeDestroyer escort (DE)
HullDE-639
BuilderBethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, also called Union Iron Works
Launched1943-12-12
Commissioned1944-03-17
FateAfloat. Her commissioned service ended on 13 March 1948. She went to the breakers later.
Armament (class)Turbo-electric destroyer escort. Three 3-inch guns, one funnel, and one torpedo mount.
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.

Gendreau
U.S. Navy. USS Gendreau (DE-639) underway in San Francisco Bay on 27 March 1944.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Gendreau, hull DE-639, belonged to the Buckley class of destroyer escorts. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, at San Francisco, also called Union Iron Works, laid her down on 1 August 1943 and launched her on 12 December 1943. The Navy commissioned her on 17 March 1944. Her first commanding officer was Lieutenant Commander Alfred Dunn Kilmartin.

Her Pacific duty took her to the Marshall Islands, Eniwetok, Emirau, and Manus.

Her commissioned service ended on 13 March 1948. She went to the breakers later.

The pictures on this page are the originals.