List of United States Navy destroyer escorts

This is a list of destroyer escorts of the United States Navy, listed both by hull number and by name. It includes the hull classification symbols DE (both Destroyer Escort and Ocean Escort), DEG, and DER.

The Lend-lease Act was passed into law in the USA in March 1941 enabling the United Kingdom to procure merchant ships, warships and munitions etc from the USA, in order to help with the war effort. This enabled the UK to commission the USA to design, build and supply an escort vessel that was suitable for anti submarine warfare in deep open ocean situations, which they did in June 1941. Captain E.L. Cochrane of the American Bureau of Shipping came up with a design which was known as the British Destroyer Escort (BDE). The BDE designation was retained by the first six Destroyer Escorts transferred to the United Kingdom ( BDE 1, 2, 3, 4, 12 and 46); of the initial order of 50 these were the only ones the Royal Navy received, the rest being reclassified as Destroyer Escort (DE) on January 25, 1943 and taken over by the United States Navy. [The Buckley-Class Destroyer Escorts by Bruce Hampton Franklin, published by Chatham Publishing (1999), ISBN 086176118X page 7]

In 1975, ships that were classified DE or DEG were reclassified as FF or FFG (frigates). This affected hull numbers DE-1037 and higher as well as all DEGs.

See List of frigates of the United States Navy

Destroyer Escorts

Guided Missile Destroyer Escort

* (DEG-1) "Brooke"
* (DEG-2) "Ramsey"
* (DEG-3) "Schofield"
* (DEG-4) "Talbot"
* (DEG-5) "Richard L. Page"
* (DEG-6) "Julius A. Furer"
* DEG-7 through 13 were paid for by the United States Navy, and built for Portugal. When the ships were redesignated FFG, a patrol frigate design would be re-designated the FFG-7 Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate.

Radar Picket Destroyer Escort

ee also

* Destroyer
* Frigate
* Lists
** Captain class frigate Captain class was the name the Royal Navy gave to Destroyer escorts.
** List of frigate classes
** List of frigates of the United States Navy subset of above with hull numbers DE/FF 1037 and higher plus all DEG/FFGs because of the United States Navy 1975 ship reclassification
* Modern naval tactics.

References

External links

* [http://www.desausa.org/ http://www.desausa.org/] Destroyer Escort Sailors Association (DESA).
* [http://www.ussslater.org/ http://www.ussslater.org/] USS Slater, the Destroyer Escort Historical Museum.
* [http://www.williammaloney.com/Dad/WWII/DestroyerEscortSlater/index.htm Destroyer Escort Slater Photos on board the Destroyer Escort USS Slater DE-766]
* [http://www.williammaloney.com/Dad/WWII/DadWWII/DadWWIIindex.html WWII Destroyer Escort Photos] Photos of life on board the Destroyer Escort USS Bangust DE-739 in WWII
* [http://www.captainclassfrigates.co.uk/ http://www.captainclassfrigates.co.uk/] the Captain Class Frigates Association.
* [http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/types.html?type=Destroyer+Escort http://www.uboat.net/]