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USS Fogg (DE 57)

Destroyer Escort of the Buckley class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassBuckley 
PennantDE 57 
Built byBethlehem Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down4 Dec, 1942 
Launched20 Mar, 1943 
Commissioned7 Jul, 1943 
End service27 Oct, 1947 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned 27 October 1947.
Reclassified as DER-57 on 18 March 1949.
Reverted back to DE-57 28 October 1954.
Stricken 1 April 1965.
Sold 4 January 1966 and broken up for scrap. 

Hit by U-boat
Damaged on 20 Dec, 1944 by U-870 (Hechler).

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