Allied Warships

USS Frament (DE 677)

Destroyer Escort of the Buckley class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassBuckley 
PennantDE 677 
Built byBethlehem Steel Corp. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down1 May 1943 
Launched28 Jun 1943 
Commissioned15 Aug 1943 
End service30 May 1946 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 3 December 1944.
Converted to High Speed Transport and recommissioned in March 1945 as APD-77.
Decommissioned 30 May 1946.
Stricken 1 January 1960.
Transferred to Ecuador and used as a power hulk from July 1961.

 

Commands listed for USS Frament (DE 677)

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Noteable events involving Frament include:


15 Nov 1944
at 0223 hours the Italian submarine Luigi Settembrini was mistakenly rammed and sunk some 685 miles west off Gibraltar in position 36º11'N, 19º45'W by the US destroyer escort USS Frament.

Note: Italy had joined the Allies on 13 October 1943. (see map)

Media links


Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.


The Buckley-Class Destroyer Escorts

Bruce Hampton Franklin

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