Allied Warships

USS Bunch (DE 694)

Destroyer Escort of the Buckley class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassBuckley 
PennantDE 694 
Built byDefoe Boat and Marine Works. (Bay City, Michigan, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down23 Feb 1943 
Launched29 May 1943 
Commissioned21 Aug 1943 
End service5 Jun 1947 
Loss position
 
History

Converted to a High-speed Transport at Todd Shipyards, Corp., Brooklyn, New York and redesignated APD-79 on 31 July 1944.
Decommissioned 5 June 1947.
Laid up in the Reserve Fleet.
Stricken 16 June 1966.
Transferred to Taiwan on 12 July 1966 being renamed Lu Shan.
Lu Shan was stricken by the Taiwanese Navy in May 1995 and broken up for scrap.

 

Commands listed for USS Bunch (DE 694)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt.Cdr. Alan Alfred Campbell, USNR21 Aug 194329 Jun 1944
2Benjamin Dwight Hyde, USNR29 Jun 1944

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Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.


The Buckley-Class Destroyer Escorts

Bruce Hampton Franklin

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