| Navy | The US Navy |
| Type | Destroyer Escort |
| Class | Edsall |
| Pennant | DE 142 |
| Built by | Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd. (Orange, Texas, U.S.A.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 4 Jan, 1943 |
| Launched | 9 Mar, 1943 |
| Commissioned | 25 Aug, 1943 |
| End service | 30 Jun, 1960 |
| Loss position | |
| History | Decommissioned 24 June 1946. Reclassified as DER-142 on 1 October 1951. Recommissioned 4 March 1952. Decommissioned 30 June 1960. Stricken 1 September 1966. Sunk as target off Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 20 December 1967. |
| Noteable events involving Fessenden include: 30 Sep, 1944 |