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O'Flaherty

Class	John C. Butler class
Type	Destroyer escort (DE)
Hull	DE-340
Builder	Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
Launched	1943-12-14
Commissioned	1944-04-08
Fate	Afloat. She went to the breakers later.
Armament (class)	Destroyer escort. Two 5-inch guns and one funnel, on a shorter hull.
Command	Farnham, D. W. Commanding officer from 8 April 1944

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.

O'Flaherty, hull DE-340, belonged to the John C. Butler class of destroyer escorts. The name honors Ensign Frank Woodrow O'Flaherty. Consolidated Steel Corporation, at Orange, Texas, laid her down on 4 October 1943 and launched her on 14 December 1943. The Navy commissioned her on 8 April 1944. Her first commanding officer was Lieutenant Commander D. W. Farnham.

Her Pacific duty took her to Lingayen, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and Majuro. She was credited with 4 battle stars.

She went to the breakers later.

The pictures on this page are the originals.