Allied Warships

USS Cushing (ii) (DD 797)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassFletcher 
PennantDD 797 
Built byBethlehem Steel Corp. (Staten Island, New York, U.S.A.) 
Ordered14 Jun 1942 
Laid down3 May 1943 
Launched30 Sep 1943 
Commissioned17 Jan 1944 
End service8 Nov 1960 
History

Decommissioned 3 February 1947.
Recommissioned 17 August 1951.
Decommissioned 8 November 1960.
Transferred to Brazil 20 July 1961 being renamed Parana (D-29).
Parana was stricken and broken up for scrap in February 1982.

 

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1Cdr. Louis Frank Yolk, USN17 Jan 1944???

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Destroyers of World War Two
Whitley, M. J.


U.S. Destroyers
Friedman, Norman


United States Destroyer Operations In World War II.
Roscoe, Theodore

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