Allied Warships

USS Coates (DE 685)

Destroyer Escort of the Rudderow class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassRudderow 
PennantDE 685 
Built byBethlehem Steel Corp. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down8 Nov 1943 
Launched12 Dec 1943 
Commissioned24 Jan 1944 
End service30 Jan 1970 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 16 April 1946.
Recommissioned 7 February 1951.
Decommissioned and stricken 30 January 1970.
Sunk as a target 19 September 1971.

 

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1Lt. W. S. Wills, USNR24 Jan 1944???

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Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.

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