Allied Warships

USS Drury (DE 46)

Destroyer Escort of the Evarts class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassEvarts 
PennantDE 46 
Built byPhiladelphia Navy Yard (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down12 Feb, 1942 
Launched24 Jul, 1942 
Commissioned20 Aug, 1945 
End service22 Oct, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryFormer HMS Drury (BDE-46), leased from the US on 12 April 1943.
Returned to the U.S.N. on 20 August 1945 and commissioned by them on the same day.
Decommissioned at Philadelphia Navy Yard on 22 October 1945.
Scrapped in June 1946. 
Former nameHMS Drury

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