Allied Warships

USS Bright (DE 747)

Destroyer Escort of the Cannon class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassCannon 
PennantDE 747 
Built byWestern Pipe & Steel Co. (San Pedro, California, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down9 Jun 1943 
Launched26 Sep 1943 
Commissioned30 Jun 1944 
End service19 Apr 1946 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 19 April 1946.
Stricken by the U.S.N. 20 December 1950.
Transferred to France 11 November 1950 being renamed Touareg.
Touareg was stricken and broken up for scrap in 1958.

 

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1Lt.Cdr. William A McMahan, USNR30 Jun 1944???

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Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.

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