Allied Warships

USS J.R.Y. Blakely (DE 140)

Destroyer Escort of the Edsall class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassEdsall 
PennantDE 140 
Built byConsolidated Steel Corp., Ltd. (Orange, Texas, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down16 Dec 1942 
Launched7 Mar 1943 
Commissioned16 Aug 1943 
End service14 Jun 1946 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 14 June 1946.
Stricken 2 January 1971.
Sold 22 August 1973 and broken up for scrap.

 

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1Cdr. J. H. Forshew, USN16 Aug 1943???

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Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.

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