Pacific ships

Photos and the story

Gillette

Back to Gillette

ClassBuckley class
TypeDestroyer escort (DE)
HullDE-681
BuilderBethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts
Launched1943-09-25
Commissioned1943-10-27
FateAfloat. Her commissioned service ended on 3 February 1947. 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.

Gillette
U.S. Navy. USS Gillette (DE-681) at anchor in June 1944.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Gillette, hull DE-681, belonged to the Buckley class of destroyer escorts. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, at Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, laid her down on 24 August 1943 and launched her on 25 September 1943. The Navy commissioned her on 27 October 1943. Her first commanding officer was Commander T. G. Murrell.

Her Pacific duty took her to Manus.

Her commissioned service ended on 3 February 1947. She went to the breakers later.

The pictures on this page are the originals.