Allied Warships

USS Franks (DD 554)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassFletcher 
PennantDD 554 
Built bySeattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down8 Mar 1942 
Launched7 Dec 1942 
Commissioned30 Jul 1943 
End service31 May 1946 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 31 May 1946.
Transferred to Brazil on 20 July 1961 being renamed Parana (D29).
Parana was stricken in 1982 and broken up for scrap.

 

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1Lt.Cdr. Nicholas Adair Lidstone, USN30 Jul 1943???

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