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Mitchell

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ClassEvarts class
TypeDestroyer escort (DE)
HullDE-43
BuilderPuget Sound Navy Yard
Launched1943-08-01
Commissioned1943-11-07
FateAfloat. Her commissioned service ended on 29 December 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.

Mitchell
U.S. Navy. USS Mitchell (DE-43) underway in Puget Sound on 1 December 1943.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Mitchell, hull DE-43, belonged to the Evarts class of destroyer escorts. Puget Sound Navy Yard laid her down on 12 January 1943 and launched her on 1 August 1943. The Navy commissioned her on 7 November 1943. Her first commanding officer was Lieutenant Commander Martin Herman Erdahl.

Her Pacific duty took her to the Marshall Islands, Guam, Ulithi, and the Caroline Islands. She was credited with 9 battle stars.

Her commissioned service ended on 29 December 1945. She went to the breakers later.

The pictures on this page are the originals.