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Allied Warships

USS Poole (DE 151)

Destroyer Escort of the Edsall class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassEdsall 
PennantDE 151 
Built byConsolidated Steel Corp., Ltd. (Orange, Texas, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down13 Feb, 1943 
Launched8 May, 1943 
Commissioned29 Sep, 1943 
End serviceJan, 1947 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned in January 1947.
Stricken 2 January 1971.
Sold 30 January 1974 and broken up for scrap. 

Noteable events involving Poole include:

30 Aug, 1944
USS Poole picks up 2 survivors from the American tanker Jacksonville that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-482 about 50 miles north of Londonderry, Northern Ireland in position 55.30N, 07.30W.


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