List of destroyer escorts of the United States Navy
Class Design type Lead ship Commissioned # Ships ordered # Ships Completed as US DEs
Evarts GMT USS Evarts ( DE-5 ) 15 April 1943 105 65
Buckley TE USS Buckley ( DE-51 ) 30 April 1943 154 65
Cannon DET USS Cannon ( DE-99 ) 26 September 1943 116 58
Edsall FMR USS Edsall ( DE-129 ) 10 April 1943 85 85
Rudderow TEV USS Rudderow ( DE-224 ) 15 May 1944 252 21
John C. Butler WGT USS John C. Butler ( DE-339 ) 31 March 1944 293 83
Dealey SCB 72 USS Dealey ( DE-1006 ) 3 June 1954 13 13
Claud Jones SCB 131 USS Claud Jones ( DE-1033 ) 10 February 1959 4 4
Bronstein USS Bronstein ( DE-1037 ) 16 June 1963 2 2
Garcia USS Garcia ( DE-1040 ) 21 December 1964 11 11
Brooke USS Brooke ( DEG-1 ) 12 March 1966 19 6
Knox USS Knox ( DE-1052 ) 12 April 1969 55 46
Classes
This is a list of destroyer escorts of the United States Navy, listed in a table sortable by both name and hull-number. 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 US in March 1941 enabling the United Kingdom to procure merchant ships, warships and munitions etc. from the US, in order to help with the war effort. This enabled the UK to commission the US 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 25 January 1943 and taken over by the United States Navy. Ships that were classified DE or DEG were reclassified in 1975 as FF or FFG (frigates). This affected hull numbers DE-1037 and higher as well as all DEGs.