Allied Warships

USS Darby (DE 218)

Destroyer Escort of the Buckley class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassBuckley 
PennantDE 218 
Built byPhiladelphia Navy Yard (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down22 Feb 1943 
Launched29 May 1943 
Commissioned15 Nov 1943 
End service 1958 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 28 April 1947.
Recommissioned 24 October 1950.
Decommissioned in 1958.
Stricken 23 September 1968.
Sunk as a target 24 May 1970.

 

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1Lt.Cdr. David Deane Humphreys, USN15 Nov 1943???

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Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.


The Buckley-Class Destroyer Escorts

Bruce Hampton Franklin

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