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Steele

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ClassEvarts class
TypeDestroyer escort (DE)
HullDE-8
BuilderBoston Navy Yard
Launched1943-01-09
Commissioned1943-05-04
FateAfloat. Her commissioned service ended on 21 November 1945.
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.

Steele
Jim Brewer RM 2/c, U.S. Navy. USS Steele (DE-8) at anchor, circa in 1945.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Steele, hull DE-8, belonged to the Evarts class of destroyer escorts. Boston Navy Yard laid her down on 27 November 1942 and launched her on 9 January 1943. The Navy commissioned her on 4 May 1943. Her first commanding officer was Lieutenant Commander Mark Edwin Dennett.

Her Pacific duty took her to the Marshall Islands, Majuro, the Gilbert Islands, and Tarawa.

Her commissioned service ended on 21 November 1945.

The pictures on this page are the originals.