Allied Warships

USS Lee Fox (DE 65)

Destroyer Escort of the Buckley class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassBuckley 
PennantDE 65 
Built byBethlehem Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down1 Mar 1943 
Launched29 May 1943 
Commissioned30 Aug 1943 
End service13 May 1946 
Loss position
 
History

Converted to High Speed Transport and reclassified APD-45 on 23 February 1945.
Decommissioned 13 May 1946.
Stricken 1 September 1964.
Sold 31 January 1966 and broken up for scrap.

 

Commands listed for USS Lee Fox (DE 65)

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1Lt.Cdr. William Croft Jennings, USN30 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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