Allied Warships

USS Alexander J. Luke (DE 577)

Destroyer Escort of the Buckley class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassBuckley 
PennantDE 577 
Built byBethlehem Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down5 Nov 1943 
Launched28 Dec 1943 
Commissioned19 Feb 1944 
End service18 Oct 1947 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 18 October 1947.
Stricken 1 May 1970.
Sunk as a target off Newport, Rhode Island on 22 October 1970.

 

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1Lt.Cdr. Herbert Augustus Peterson, USN19 Feb 1944???

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