Allied Warships

USS Austin (DE 15)

Destroyer Escort of the Evarts class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassEvarts 
PennantDE 15 
Built byMare Island Navy Yard (Vallejo, California, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down14 Mar 1942 
Launched25 Sep 1942 
Commissioned13 Feb 1943 
End service21 Dec 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 21 December 1945.
Stricken 8 January 1946.
Sold for scrap in 1946.
The Terminal Island Naval Shipyard completed scrapping her on 9 January 1947.

 

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1Lt.Cdr. Herbert Gordon Claudius, USNR13 Feb 1943???

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Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.

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