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Griswold

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ClassEvarts class
TypeDestroyer escort (DE)
HullDE-7
BuilderBoston Navy Yard
Launched1943-01-09
Commissioned1943-04-28
FateAfloat. Her commissioned service ended on 19 November 1945. She went to the breakers 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.

Griswold
Mare Island Naval Shipyard photo DE-7 3110-44. USS Griswold (DE-7) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 23 May 1944 (NH 83877).jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Griswold, hull DE-7, belonged to the Evarts class of destroyer escorts. The name honors Ensign Don T. Griswold. Boston Navy Yard laid her down on 27 November 1942 and launched her on 9 January 1943. The Navy commissioned her on 28 April 1943. Her first commanding officer was Lieutenant Commander Charles Malaher Lyons Jr.

Her Pacific duty took her to Eniwetok, Okinawa, Leyte, and the Philippines.

Her commissioned service ended on 19 November 1945. She went to the breakers later.

The pictures on this page are the originals.