 Equipped with three centerline torpedo tubes, the ship also carried two depth charge racks, eight K-gun depth-charge throwers and one Hedgehog spigot mortar as anti-submarine weapons.She was equipped with a QC series sonar, SL-1 surface search radar, and SA-2 air search radar.Laid down by the Consolidated Steel Corporation of Orange, Texas, on 8 November 1943, "Oberrender" (DE-344) was launched on 18 January 1944, sponsored by the widow of her namesake, Lieutenant Commander Thomas Olin Oberrender Jr., the engineering officer of , who was killed during the sinking of the latter in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.