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Sanders

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ClassEvarts class
TypeDestroyer escort (DE)
HullDE-40
BuilderPuget Sound Navy Yard
Launched1943-06-18
Commissioned1943-10-01
FateAfloat. Her commissioned service ended on 19 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.

Sanders
USN. USS Sanders (DE-40) at anchor off the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in 1943.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sanders, hull DE-40, belonged to the Evarts class of destroyer escorts. Puget Sound Navy Yard laid her down on 7 September 1942 and launched her on 18 June 1943. The Navy commissioned her on 1 October 1943. Her first commanding officer was Lieutenant Commander Arthur N. Daniels.

Her Pacific duty took her to the Marshall Islands. She was credited with 4 battle stars.

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

The pictures on this page are the originals.