Allied Warships

USS Laning (DE 159)

Destroyer Escort of the Buckley class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassBuckley 
PennantDE 159 
Built byNorfolk Navy Yard (Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down23 Apr 1943 
Launched4 Jul 1943 
Commissioned1 Aug 1943 
End service13 Sep 1956 
Loss position
 
History

Converted to High Speed Transport and reclassified as APD-55 on 24 November 1944.
Decommissioned 28 June 1946.
Recommissioned 6 April 1951.
Decommissioned 13 September 1956.
Stricken 1 March 1975.
Sold 30 September 1975 and broken up for scrap.

 

Commands listed for USS Laning (DE 159)

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1Cdr. Edwin Charles Woodward, USN1 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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