Allied Warships

USS Baron (DE 166)

Destroyer Escort of the Cannon class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassCannon 
PennantDE 166 
Built byFederal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down30 Nov 1942 
Launched9 May 1943 
Commissioned5 Jul 1943 
End service26 Apr 1946 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 26 April 1946.
Stricken by the U.S.N. 14 May 1952.
Transferred to Uruguay 3 May 1952 being renamed Uruguay.
Uruguay was stricken and scrapped in 1990.

 

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1Lt.Cdr. D. McVicker, USNR5 Jul 1943???

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Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.

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