Allied Warships

USS George W. Ingram (DE 62)

Destroyer Escort of the Buckley class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassBuckley 
PennantDE 62 
Built byBethlehem Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down6 Feb 1943 
Launched8 May 1943 
Commissioned11 Aug 1943 
End service15 Jan 1947 
Loss position
 
History

Converted to High Speed Transport and reclassified APD- 42 on 23 February 1945.
Decommissioned 15 January 1947.
Stricken 1 January 1967.
Transferred to Taiwan 16 May 1967 being renamed Kang Shan.
Kang Shan was stricken in 1978 and broken up for scrap in 1979.

 

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1Lt.Cdr. Ernest Relde Perry, USN11 Aug 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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