Allied Warships

USS Pettit (DE 253)

Destroyer Escort of the Edsall class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassEdsall 
PennantDE 253 
Built byBrown Shipbuilding Co. (Houston, Texas, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down6 Feb 1943 
Launched28 Apr 1943 
Commissioned23 Sep 1943 
End service6 May 1946 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 6 May 1946.
Stricken 1 August 1973.
Sunk as target a off the coast of Puerto Rico 30 September 1974.

 

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1Lt.Cdr. William B. Ellis, USCG23 Sep 1943???

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Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.

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