Allied Warships

USS Lansing (DE 388)

Destroyer Escort of the Edsall class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassEdsall 
PennantDE 388 
Built byBrown Shipbuilding Co. (Houston, Texas, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down15 May 1943 
Launched2 Aug 1943 
Commissioned10 Nov 1943 
End service21 May 1965 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 25 April 1946.
Loaned to the United States Coast Guard and (re)commissioned by them as WDE-488 on 15 June 1952.
Returned to the U.S.N. and decommissioned 29 March 1954.
Reclassified as DER-388 on 21 October 1955.
Recommissioned 18 December 1956.
Decommissioned 21 May 1965.
Stricken 1 February 1974.
Sold 16 August 1974 and broken up for scrap.

 

Commands listed for USS Lansing (DE 388)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt.Cdr. Simon R Sands, USCG10 Nov 19436 May 1944
2Lt.Cdr. Richard F. Rea, USCG6 May 194425 Jun 1945

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Destroyers of World War Two
Whitley, M. J.

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