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Wyman

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ClassEvarts class
TypeDestroyer escort (DE)
HullDE-38
BuilderPuget Sound Navy Yard
Launched1943-06-03
Commissioned1943-09-01
FateAfloat. Her commissioned service ended on 17 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.

Wyman
U.S. Navy. USS Wyman (DE-38) underway on 19 September 1943.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Wyman, hull DE-38, belonged to the Evarts class of destroyer escorts. Puget Sound Navy Yard laid her down on 7 September 1942 and launched her on 3 June 1943. The Navy commissioned her on 1 September 1943. Her first commanding officer was Lieutenant Commander Robert Witcher Copeland.

Her Pacific duty took her to the Marshall Islands, Eniwetok, Saipan, and the Marianas. She was credited with 6 battle stars.

Her commissioned service ended on 17 December 1945. She went to the breakers later.

The pictures on this page are the originals.