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Marsh

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ClassBuckley class
TypeDestroyer escort (DE)
HullDE-699
BuilderDefoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan
Launched1943-09-25
Commissioned1944-01-12
FateAfloat. Her commissioned service ended on 1 August 1962. 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.

Marsh
U.S. Navy photo 80-G-364378. USS Tulagi (CVE-72) and USS Marsh (DE-699) underway in the Atlantic Ocean on 2 June 1944 (80-G-364378).jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Marsh, hull DE-699, belonged to the Buckley class of destroyer escorts. Defoe Shipbuilding Company, at Bay City, Michigan, laid her down on 23 June 1943 and launched her on 25 September 1943. The Navy commissioned her on 12 January 1944. Her first commanding officer was Lieutenant Commander Perry Maurice Fenton.

Her Pacific duty took her to the Marianas, Okinawa, the Yellow Sea, and Subic.

Her commissioned service ended on 1 August 1962. She went to the breakers later.

The pictures on this page are the originals.