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Weeden

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ClassBuckley class
TypeDestroyer escort (DE)
HullDE-797
BuilderConsolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
Launched1943-10-27
Commissioned1944-02-19
FateAfloat. Her commissioned service ended on 9 May 1946. She went to the breakers later.
Armament (class)Turbo-electric destroyer escort. Three 3-inch guns, one funnel, and one torpedo mount.
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.

Weeden
U.S. Navy photo 80-G-301397. USS Weeden (DE-797) underway in Massachusetts Bay (USA) on 19 January 1945 (80-G-301397).jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Weeden, hull DE-797, belonged to the Buckley class of destroyer escorts. Consolidated Steel Corporation, at Orange, Texas, laid her down on 18 August 1943 and launched her on 27 October 1943. The Navy commissioned her on 19 February 1944. Her first commanding officer was Lieutenant Commander Charles Foster Tillinghast Jr.

Her Pacific duty took her to Manus, the Admiralty Islands, the Philippines, and Leyte.

Her commissioned service ended on 9 May 1946. She went to the breakers later.

The pictures on this page are the originals.