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Rombach

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ClassJohn C. Butler class
TypeDestroyer escort (DE)
HullDE-364
BuilderConsolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
Launched1944-06-06
Commissioned1944-09-20
FateAfloat. Her commissioned service ended on 9 January 1958. She went to the breakers later.
Armament (class)Destroyer escort. Two 5-inch guns and one funnel, on a shorter hull.
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.

Rombach
Lt. Leo R. Green, U.S. Navy, aboard USS General H.B. Freeman (T-AP-143). USS Rombach (DE-364) underway in the Pacific Ocean, in 1954.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Rombach, hull DE-364, belonged to the John C. Butler class of destroyer escorts. Consolidated Steel Corporation, at Orange, Texas, laid her down on 10 April 1944 and launched her on 6 June 1944. The Navy commissioned her on 20 September 1944. Her first commanding officer was Lieutenant Commander Calvert Burke Gill.

Her Pacific duty took her to Manus, the Admiralty Islands, Hollandia, and New Guinea.

Her commissioned service ended on 9 January 1958. She went to the breakers later.

The pictures on this page are the originals.