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Tills

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ClassCannon class
TypeDestroyer escort (DE)
HullDE-748
BuilderWestern Pipe and Steel Company, San Pedro, California
Launched1943-10-03
Commissioned1944-08-08
FateAfloat. Her commissioned service ended on 14 June 1946. The Navy later expended her as a target.
Armament (class)Diesel-electric destroyer escort. Three 3-inch guns, one funnel, and one torpedo mount.
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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.

Tills
U.S. Navy. USS Tills (DE-748) underway in the Pacific Ocean, circa in November 1945.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Tills, hull DE-748, belonged to the Cannon class of destroyer escorts. Western Pipe and Steel Company, at San Pedro, California, laid her down on 23 June 1943 and launched her on 3 October 1943. The Navy commissioned her on 8 August 1944. Her first commanding officer was Lieutenant Commander James Levan Brooks.

Her Pacific duty took her to Eniwetok, the Marshall Islands, Ulithi, and Okinawa.

Her commissioned service ended on 14 June 1946. The Navy later expended her as a target.

The pictures on this page are the originals.