Allied Warships

USS Hopping (DE 155)

Destroyer Escort of the Buckley class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassBuckley 
PennantDE 155 
Built byNorfolk Navy Yard (Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down15 Dec 1942 
Launched9 Mar 1943 
Commissioned21 May 1943 
End service5 May 1947 
Loss position
 
History

Converted to High Speed Transport and reclassified as APD-51 on 7 September 1944.
Decommissioned 5 May 1947.
Stricken 1 September 1964.
Sold 15 August 1966 and broken up for scrap.

 

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1Lt.Cdr. Frank Daniel Giambattista, USN21 May 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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