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US Navy warship classification
Destroyer escort (DE) was the United States Navy mid-20th-century classification for a 20-knot (37 km/h; 23 mph) warship designed with the endurance necessary
Destroyer_escort
Type of warship
An escort destroyer was a small warship built to full naval standards which was optimised for air-defence and anti-submarine duties in wartime, but which
Escort_destroyer
Class of American destroyer escorts
Buckley-class destroyer escorts were 108 destroyer escorts launched in the United States in 1943–44. They served in World War II as convoy escorts and antisubmarine
Buckley-class destroyer escort
Buckley-class_destroyer_escort
Class of American destroyer escorts
The Edsall-class destroyer escorts were destroyer escorts built primarily for ocean antisubmarine escort service during World War II. The lead ship, USS Edsall
Edsall-class_destroyer_escort
Class of American destroyer escorts
Cannon class was a class of destroyer escorts built by the United States primarily for antisubmarine warfare and convoy escort service during World War II
Cannon-class_destroyer_escort
classification symbols DE (both Destroyer Escort and Ocean Escort), DEG (Destroyer Escort, Guided missile), and DER (Destroyer Escort, Radar picket). The Lend-Lease
List of destroyer escorts of the United States Navy
List_of_destroyer_escorts_of_the_United_States_Navy
General-purpose destroyer escort class in the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces
Abukuma-class destroyer escort (or frigate) (Japanese: あぶくま型護衛艦, romanized: Abukuma-gata-goeikan) is the general-purpose destroyer escort of the Japan
Abukuma-class destroyer escort
Abukuma-class_destroyer_escort
Class of American destroyer escorts
Evarts-class destroyer escorts were destroyer escorts launched in the United States in 1942–44. They served in World War II as convoy escorts and anti-submarine
Evarts-class_destroyer_escort
Class of American destroyer escorts
Rudderow-class destroyer escorts were destroyer escorts launched in the United States in 1943 to 1945. Of this class, 21 were completed as destroyer escorts, and
Rudderow-class destroyer escort
Rudderow-class_destroyer_escort
Class of American destroyer escorts
The John C. Butler class were destroyer escorts that originated during World War II. The lead ship was USS John C. Butler, commissioned on 31 March 1944
John C. Butler-class destroyer escort
John_C._Butler-class_destroyer_escort
Class of American destroyer escorts
Dealey-class destroyer escorts were the first post-World War II escort ships built for the United States Navy. Slightly faster and larger than the escort destroyers
Dealey-class_destroyer_escort
Type of warship intended to escort other larger ships
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, manoeuvrable, long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle
Destroyer
Topics referred to by the same term
be used to escort convoys of merchant marine ships. Destroyer escort may also refer to: Abukuma-class destroyer escort, a destroyer escort class of the
Destroyer escort (disambiguation)
Destroyer_escort_(disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
Escort destroyer (DDE) is a US Navy post World War II classification for destroyers (DD) modified for and assigned to escort fleets. Escort destroyer
Escort destroyer (disambiguation)
Escort_destroyer_(disambiguation)
Ship type
Ocean escort was a type of warship used by the United States Navy. They were an evolution of the destroyer escort types used during World War II. The
Ocean_escort
Japanese Ishikari class destroyer
JS Ishikari (DE-226) was the first destroyer escort with a gas turbine engine and surface-to-surface missiles of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force
JS_Ishikari
Part of the Battle of Leyte Gulf
remaining in the area. Composed of only six small escort carriers, three destroyers, and four destroyer escorts, Taffy 3 was intended to provide shore support
Battle_off_Samar
Destroyer escort of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force
Yūbari-class destroyer escort (or frigate) of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force is the successor to the Ishikari-class destroyer escort and primarily
Yūbari-class_destroyer_escort
Japanese naval ship class (1971–2003)
The Chikugo-class destroyer escort (or frigate) was a class of destroyer escorts built by the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force as the successor of
Chikugo-class destroyer escort
Chikugo-class_destroyer_escort
Class of US Navy frigates
- see link for status The Garcia class from Destroyers OnLine - pictures, history, crews Destroyer Escort Sailors Association[link removed] more information
Garcia-class_frigate
Class of American destroyer escorts
The Claud Jones-class destroyer escorts were four destroyer escorts built for the United States Navy in the late 1950s. These ships were a diesel-powered
Claud Jones-class destroyer escort
Claud_Jones-class_destroyer_escort
aircraft carriers), two helicopter destroyers (or helicopter carriers), 36 destroyers, six frigates, six destroyer escorts (or frigates), 23 attack submarines
List of active Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships
List_of_active_Japan_Maritime_Self-Defense_Force_ships
Type of WWII aircraft carrier
aircraft, screening destroyers, and destroyer escorts. Of the 151 aircraft carriers built in the U.S. during World War II, 122 were escort carriers, though
Escort_carrier
WWII Allied Atlantic convoy escort
threat of the Kriegsmarine's "wolfpack" tactics. Early escort groups often contained destroyers, sloops, naval trawlers and, later, corvettes of differing
Escort_group
Cannon-class destroyer escort
USS Slater (DE-766) is a Cannon-class destroyer escort that served in the United States Navy and later in the Hellenic (Greek) Navy. Following service
USS_Slater
Japanese Abukuma-class destroyer escort
JS Abukuma (DE-229) is the lead ship of the Abukuma-class destroyer escorts. She was commissioned on 12 December 1989. Abukuma was laid down at Mitsui
JS_Abukuma
Designation given to 78 frigates of the Royal Navy
They were drawn from two classes of the American destroyer escort (originally "British Destroyer Escort") classification: 32 of the GMT (Evarts) Type and
Captain-class_frigate
Destroyer class of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
ship, Asahi, is the third ship to hold the name after the Asahi-class destroyer escort lent from the United States Navy in 1955, and the Imperial Japanese
Asahi-class_destroyer
Class of destroyer escorts in the Japanese military
The Asahi-class destroyer escort was a class of destroyer escorts of Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. Two ships were lent from the Cannon class by
Asahi-class_destroyer_escort
size and speed of 34.5 knots, the class is considered a light destroyer, or destroyer escort. Chacal class - 6 operational in September 1939 Guépard class
French World War II destroyers
French_World_War_II_destroyers
Kagerō-class destroyer
the escort carriers and destroyers of Taffy 3, firing torpedoes at US escort carriers without obtaining a hit before helping to sink the destroyer USS
Japanese destroyer Yukikaze (1939)
Japanese_destroyer_Yukikaze_(1939)
Evarts-class destroyer escort - 97 built Buckley-class destroyer escort - 148 built Cannon-class destroyer escort - 72 built Edsall-class destroyer escort - 85
List of escort vessel classes of World War II
List_of_escort_vessel_classes_of_World_War_II
Australian naval class (1961–68)
The River class was a class of six destroyer escorts (originally designated anti-submarine frigates) operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Plans
River-class_destroyer_escort
Class of Anti-Submarine Warfare frigates
second-generation anti-submarine warfare (ASW) escorts. Originally laid down as ocean escorts (formerly called destroyer escorts), they were all redesignated as frigates
Knox-class_frigate
ships, such as US Navy "destroyer escorts", and British "escort destroyers" and sloops but US Navy "escort destroyers", are destroyer-class vessels and found
List of frigates of World War II
List_of_frigates_of_World_War_II
Japanese class of naval vessels
usually classified as a destroyer, but due to their relatively light displacement, in other sources as a destroyer escort. This class is the successor
Yamagumo-class_destroyer
Major 1945 battle of the Pacific War
battleships, 27 cruisers, 177 destroyers/destroyer escorts, 39 aircraft carriers (11 fleet carriers, 6 light carriers and 22 escort carriers) and various support
Battle_of_Okinawa
Japanese naval ship class (1961–1993)
The Isuzu-class destroyer escorts were four destroyer escorts (or frigates) built for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) in the early 1960s
Isuzu-class_destroyer_escort
Class of Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer
class was also designated the Type-D Destroyer (丁型駆逐艦, Tei-gata kuchikukan). Although sometimes termed Destroyer escorts, they were larger and more capable
Matsu-class_destroyer
US Navy designation for large destroyers
destroyer escorts could be reclassified as frigates (FF) in conformance with international usage of the term. By the end of World War I the destroyers intended
Destroyer_leader
Mark 32 torpedo tubes
Atago-class destroyer Maya-class destroyer Akizuki-class destroyer (2010) Asahi-class destroyer Isuzu-class destroyer escort Chikugo-class destroyer escort Ishikari-class
Mark 32 surface vessel torpedo tubes
Mark_32_surface_vessel_torpedo_tubes
1942 Edsall-class destroyer escort
USS Stewart (DE–238) is an Edsall-class destroyer escort, the third United States Navy ship so named. This ship was named for Rear Admiral Charles Stewart
USS_Stewart_(DE-238)
1945 US Navy operation in the North Atlantic
reduced the effectiveness of the four U.S. Navy escort carriers involved, long patrol lines of destroyer escorts detected and engaged most of the German submarines
Operation_Teardrop
John C. Butler-class destroyer escort (1944–1944)
USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, which served in World War II, the first of three
USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413)
USS_Samuel_B._Roberts_(DE-413)
1957 film by Dick Powell
DeLuxe Color war film in CinemaScope about a battle between an American destroyer escort and a German U-boat during World War II. It stars Robert Mitchum and
The_Enemy_Below
The Ikazuchi-class destroyer escort (いかづち型護衛艦, Ikazuchigata goeikan) was a destroyer escort (or frigate) class built for the Coastal Safety Force (later
Ikazuchi-class destroyer escort
Ikazuchi-class_destroyer_escort
1943 Cannon-class destroyer escort
Datu Kalantiaw (PS-76) was the first of three ex-USN Cannon-class destroyer escorts that served with the Philippine Navy, the others being BRP Datu Sikatuna
BRP_Datu_Kalantiaw
WWII US Navy warship classification (APD)
High-speed transports were converted destroyers and destroyer escorts used in US Navy amphibious operations in World War II and afterward. They received
High-speed_transport
Abukuma-class destroyer escort
JS Tone (DE-234) is the sixth ship of the Abukuma-class destroyer escorts. She was commissioned on 8 February 1993.[page needed] Tone was laid down at
JS_Tone
cruisers, 13 light cruisers, 4 anti-aircraft light cruisers, 132 destroyers, 45 destroyer escorts Amphibious assault vessels: 84 attack transports, 29 attack
Okinawa_naval_order_of_battle
Radar of the United States Navy
Sampson-class destroyer John C. Butler-class destroyer escort Rudderow-class destroyer escort Buckley-class destroyer escort Edsall-class destroyer escort Chiwawa-class
SC_radar
List of ships with the same or similar names
was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort, commissioned in 1944 and sunk in the Battle off Samar while defending the escort carriers (CVEs) of Task Unit
USS_Samuel_B._Roberts
German World War II destroyer
a reconstruction from 1950 to 1953 that converted her into a fast destroyer escort. Worn out by 1956, Hoche was deemed too expensive to repair and decommissioned
German_destroyer_Z25
Cancelled ship class of WW2
served as prototypes for American destroyer escorts. By 1939, the US Navy realized the need for a new type of small escort ship that could be cheaply mass-produced
Stevenson-class_destroyer
Buckley-class destroyer escort
USS Buckley (DE-51) was the lead ship of her class of destroyer escorts in the service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946. After spending 23
USS_Buckley
US Navy frigate class
AN/SQS-56 sonar and other systems. Initially classified as guided missile destroyer escorts (DEG), the class were redesignated as guided missile frigates (FFG)
Brooke-class_frigate
Former frigate of the US Navy
Frederiksted, U.S. Virgin Islands, and returned to Charleston on 8 May. The destroyer Comte de Grasse and Klakring sailed as MEF 3-85 Transit Group for the
USS_Klakring
Type of warship
Second World War to describe a seagoing escort ship of intermediate size between a corvette and a destroyer. After the war, this definition has gradually
Frigate
Class of American destroyers
the modified destroyers were called "FRAM cans", "can" being a contraction of "tin can", the slang term for a destroyer or destroyer escort. Many Allen
Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer
Allen_M._Sumner-class_destroyer
Rudderow-class destroyer escort
USS Daniel A. Joy (DE-585) was a Rudderow-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1965. She was scrapped the following
USS_Daniel_A._Joy
US naval inventory classification system
operationally) D: Destroyer (pre-1920) DD: Destroyer DDC: Corvette (briefly proposed in the mid-1950s) DDE: Escort destroyer, a destroyer (DD) converted
Hull_classification_symbol
Navy branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces
The JMSDF has dispatched a number of its destroyers on a rotating schedule to the Indian Ocean in an escort role for allied vessels as part of the UN-led
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Japan_Maritime_Self-Defense_Force
1943 Edsall-class destroyer escort
Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection
USS_Sellstrom
cruiser Sumatra Destroyer escort Z5 Destroyer escort Z6 Destroyer escort Z7 Destroyer escort Z8 Destroyer escort G13 Destroyer escort G15 Gunboat Flores
List of Dutch military equipment of World War II
List_of_Dutch_military_equipment_of_World_War_II
Former class of US Navy destroyers
Mahan-class destroyers of the United States Navy were a series of 18 destroyers of which the first 16 were laid down in 1934. The last two of the 18,
Mahan-class_destroyer
1943 Cannon-class destroyer escort
former destroyer escort of the United States Navy and a former frigate of the Philippine Navy. She was the last World War II-era destroyer escort/frigate
BRP_Rajah_Humabon
U.S. Navy WWII destroyer escort
USS Cecil J. Doyle (DE-368) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. She was finally sunk
USS_Cecil_J._Doyle
Abukuma-class destroyer escort
JS Chikuma (DE-233) is the fifth ship of the Abukuma-class destroyer escorts. She was commissioned on 24 February 1993. Chikuma was laid down at Hitachi
JS_Chikuma
Supposed 1943 US Navy experiment
Allen described an experiment where the U.S. Navy attempted to make a destroyer escort, USS Eldridge, disappear and the bizarre results that followed. The
Philadelphia_Experiment
Two-dimensional radar
Porter-class destroyer Fletcher-class destroyer Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer Gearing-class destroyer Mitscher-class destroyer Dealey-class destroyer escort Claud
AN/SPS-6
US Navy warship class
United States Navy warships, originally laid down as ocean escorts (formerly called destroyer escorts), but were all redesignated as frigates on 30 June 1975
Bronstein-class_frigate
Destroyer escort class of the Royal Canadian Navy
The St. Laurent-class destroyer was a class of destroyer escorts that served the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from the mid-1950s to
St._Laurent-class_destroyer
Numbers quoted vary, but at least 47 Allied vessels, from PT boats to escort carriers, were sunk by kamikaze attacks, and about 300 damaged. During World
List of Allied vessels struck by Japanese special attack weapons
List_of_Allied_vessels_struck_by_Japanese_special_attack_weapons
War, the Romanian Navy operated four destroyers, one large escort ship comparable to American destroyer escorts plus one sea-going torpedo boat. These
List of Romanian Navy destroyers of World War II
List_of_Romanian_Navy_destroyers_of_World_War_II
Canadian warship class (1964–1998)
The Annapolis-class destroyer escort was a two-ship class of destroyer escorts that saw service with the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Forces from the
Annapolis-class_destroyer
Classification of Japanese naval vessel
Allied destroyer escorts when undertaking escort roles. The kaibokans' lack of such features rendered them more comparable to Matsu-class destroyers, which
Kaibōkan
Largest naval battle of World War II
sacrifice of the much weaker force of six slow escort carriers, three destroyers, four destroyer escorts, and 400 aircraft at the Battle off Samar, utterly
Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf
1944 class of US Navy ships
and the Vietnam War. All of them were converted from Rudderow-class destroyer escorts during construction except for USS Bray (APD-139), which was converted
Crosley-class high speed transport
Crosley-class_high_speed_transport
Class of American destroyers
the wartime radar picket subclass, the 1950s radar picket destroyer (DDR) and escort destroyer (DDE) conversions, and the fleet rehabilitation and modernization
Gearing-class_destroyer
Type of large warship
lost two escort carriers, two destroyers, and one destroyer escort sunk, with three escort carriers, one destroyer, and two destroyer escorts damaged,
Cruiser
Ship that is built and primarily intended for naval warfare
generally seen on the ocean. Guided missile destroyer are destroyers armed with anti-ship missiles. Escort destroyer was a small warship built to full naval
Warship
Later wore number 1, 71 as a destroyer escort Later wore number 2, 72 as a destroyer escort Number 77 as a destroyer escort (uncertain if she wore this
List of destroyers of the Swedish Navy
List_of_destroyers_of_the_Swedish_Navy
1961 film
now operates as the USS Slater Destroyer Escort Historical Museum in Albany, NY, and she is the last destroyer escort afloat in America. "Films of the
Alice_in_the_Navy
Destroyer equipped with guided missiles
A guided-missile destroyer (DDG) is a destroyer whose primary armament is guided missiles so they can provide anti-aircraft warfare screening for the fleet
Guided-missile_destroyer
Overview of the Order of Battle for Leyte Gulf
heavy cruisers, 3 light cruisers, 9 destroyers, 1 oiler USN: 2 escort carriers, 2 destroyers, 1 destroyer escort The light aircraft carrier USS Princeton
Leyte_Gulf_order_of_battle
John C. Butler-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy
Butler-class destroyer escort acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. The primary purpose of the destroyer escort was to escort and protect ships
USS_Haas
John C. Butler-class destroyer escort
USS Alvin C. Cockrell (DE-366) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946 and from 1951 to 1968
USS_Alvin_C._Cockrell
Second ship of the Tone-class of Japanese heavy cruisers
Battle off Samar where she damaged the destroyer USS Heermann before being crippled by gunfire from the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts and sunk by
Japanese cruiser Chikuma (1938)
Japanese_cruiser_Chikuma_(1938)
Rudderow-class destroyer escort
USS McNulty (DE-581) was a Rudderow-class destroyer escort in the United States Navy during World War II. John Thomas McNulty was born on 23 April 1897
USS_McNulty
1944 John C. Butler-class destroyer escort
USS Abercrombie (DE-343) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort in the service of the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. She was finally sunk as
USS_Abercrombie
1943 Edsall-class destroyer escort
Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean the Pacific Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection
USS_Otterstetter
World War II anti-submarine initiative
Loosestrife, Dianella and Roselys Escort Group B-1: H-class destroyer Hurricane with Town-class destroyer Rockingham, V-class destroyer Venomous, and Flower-class
Mid-ocean_escort_force
United States Navy destroyer escort ship (1943–1951)
USS Eldridge (DE-173), a Cannon-class destroyer escort, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Lieutenant Commander John Eldridge Jr., who led
USS_Eldridge
Dealey-class destroyer escort
USS Bauer (DE-1025) was a Dealey-class destroyer escort in the United States Navy. She was named for Lieutenant Colonel Harold William Bauer, naval aviator
USS_Bauer
United States destroyer escort ship
by Dravo Corporation at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as a Buckley-class destroyer escort. Pavlic was launched 18 December 1943 and towed to Texas for refitting
USS_Pavlic
Topics referred to by the same term
American navy Cannon-class destroyer escort USS Lloyd E. Acree (DE-356), an American navy John C. Butler-class destroyer escort Cindy Acree (born 1961),
Acree
John C. Butler-class destroyer escort
Butler-class destroyer escort acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. The primary purpose of the destroyer escort was to escort and protect ships
USS_Kenneth_M._Willett
Abukuma-class destroyer escort
JS Jintsū (DE-230) is the second ship of the Abukuma-class destroyer escorts. She was commissioned on 28 February 1990. Jintsū was laid down at Hitachi
JS_Jintsū
1943 Edsall-class destroyer escort
destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and provided destroyer escort
USS_Wilhoite
Dealey-class destroyer escort
USS John Willis (DE-1027) was a Dealey-class destroyer escort in the United States Navy in service from 1957 to 1972. John Willis was launched by the New
USS_John_Willis
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