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U.S.S. WESSON

(DE-184)


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DE-184 Deployments - Major Events

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Month Year to Month Year Deployment / Event
JUL1943-Keel Date: 29 JUL 1943
at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company Newark NJ
OCT1943-Launch Date: 17 OCT 1943
NOV1943-JUN1946Commisioning
NOV1943-Commissioned: 11 NOV 1943
JAN1944-DEC1944Saipan, Guam, Tinian, Polau, Philippines
FEB1944-FEB1944Captured Japanese cutter off Roi
FEB1945-MAR1945Iwo Jima
APR1945-APR1945Battle for Okinawa/Kamikaze attack
APR1945-APR1945Battle for Okinawa/Kamikaze attack
JUL1946-Decommissioned: 25 JUL 1946
JAN1951-MAR1951
JAN1951-MAR1951
JAN1951-JAN1972Served Italian Navy as the Andromeda, then scrapped

DE-184 General Specifications

Class: Cannon-class destroyer escort

Complement: 15 Officers and 201 Enlisted

Displacement: 1240 tons

Length: 306 feet

Beam: 36 feet 10 inches

Draft: 11 feet 8 in

Range: 10 800 Nautical Miles

Final Disposition: Transferred to Italy 10 January 1951