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Allied Warships

USS Reeves (DE 156)

Destroyer Escort of the Buckley class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassBuckley 
PennantDE 156 
Built byNorfolk Navy Yard (Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down7 Feb, 1943 
Launched23 Apr, 1943 
Commissioned9 Jun, 1943 
End service30 Jul, 1946 
Loss position
 
HistoryConverted to High Speed Transport and reclassified as APD-52 on 7 September 1944.
Decommissioned 30 July 1946.
Stricken 1 June 1960.
Transferred to Ecuador in July 1961 and used as an electric generator plant. 

Noteable events involving Reeves include:

10 Mar, 1944
USS Reeves picks up 84 survivors from the American tanker Seakay that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-311 in the North Atlantic about 375 nautical miles west of Fastnet in position 51º10'N, 20º20'W.


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