Allied Warships

USS Cates (DE 763)

Destroyer Escort of the Cannon class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassCannon 
PennantDE 763 
Built byTampa Shipbuilding Co. Inc. (Tampa, Florida, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down1 Mar 1943 
Launched19 Oct 1943 
Commissioned15 Dec 1943 
End service28 Mar 1947 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 28 March 1947.
Stricken by the U.S.N. 20 December 1950.
Transferred to France 1 November 1950 being renamed Soudanais.
Soudanais was stricken and broken up in 1959.

 

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1Lt. George A. Prouse, USNR15 Dec 1943???

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Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.

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