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camouflage">dazzle camouflage</a></div> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">History</th></tr> <tr><th height="30" colspan="2" style="background-color:#B0C4DE;text-align:left;padding-left:2px;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;"><span class="flagicon"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg/54px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="54" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg/80px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg/107px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span></span><span style="padding-left:1em">United States</span></th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Name</td><td><i>Mason</i></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Laid down</td><td>14 October 1943</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Launched</td><td>17 November 1943</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Commissioned</td><td>20 March 1944</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Decommissioned</td><td>12 October 1945</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Stricken</td><td>1 November 1945</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Fate</td><td>Sold for scrap 1947</td></tr> <tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">General characteristics</th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Class and type</td><td><a href="/wiki/Evarts-class_destroyer_escort" title="Evarts-class destroyer escort"><i>Evarts</i>-class</a> <a href="/wiki/Destroyer_escort" title="Destroyer escort">destroyer escort</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Displacement</td><td>1,140 short tons (1,030 tonnes)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Length</td><td>289 ft 5 in (88.21 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Beam</td><td>35 ft 1 in (10.69 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Draft</td><td>8 ft 3 in (2.51 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Speed</td><td>21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Complement</td><td>156 officers and men</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Armament</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">3 × <a href="/wiki/3-inch/50-caliber_gun" title="3-inch/50-caliber gun">3-inch/50-caliber guns</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">4 × <a href="/wiki/1.1-inch/75-caliber_gun" title="1.1-inch/75-caliber gun">1.1-inch/75-caliber guns</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">9 × <a href="/wiki/Oerlikon_20mm_cannon" class="mw-redirect" title="Oerlikon 20mm cannon">Oerlikon 20mm cannon</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 × depth charge tracks</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">8 × <a href="/wiki/Depth_charge#Delivery_mechanisms" title="Depth charge">depth charge projector</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">1 × <a href="/wiki/Hedgehog_(weapon)" title="Hedgehog (weapon)">Hedgehog</a> anti-submarine projector</li> </ul></td></tr> </tbody></table> <p><b>USS <i>Mason</i> (DE-529)</b>, an <a href="/wiki/Evarts-class_destroyer_escort" title="Evarts-class destroyer escort"><i>Evarts</i>-class</a> <a href="/wiki/Destroyer_escort" title="Destroyer escort">destroyer escort</a>, was the second ship of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> to be named <i>Mason</i>, though DE-529 was the only one specifically named for Ensign Newton Henry Mason. USS <i>Mason</i> was one of two US Navy ships with largely <a href="/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American">African-American</a> crews in <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. The other was <a href="/wiki/USS_PC-1264" title="USS PC-1264">USS <i>PC-1264</i></a>, a <a href="/wiki/Submarine_chaser" title="Submarine chaser">submarine chaser</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-PC1264_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PC1264-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These two ships were manned by African Americans as the result of <a href="/wiki/USS_PC-1264#Segregated_ships" title="USS PC-1264">a letter</a> sent to <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">President Roosevelt</a> by the <a href="/wiki/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People" class="mw-redirect" title="National Association for the Advancement of Colored People">NAACP</a> in mid-December 1941. Entering service in 1944, the vessel was used for convoy duty in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Atlantic" title="Battle of the Atlantic">Battle of the Atlantic</a> for the remainder of the war. Following the war, <i>Mason</i> was sold for scrap and <a href="/wiki/Ship_breaking" title="Ship breaking">broken up</a> in 1947. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Namesake">Namesake</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Mason_(DE-529)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Namesake"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Newton Henry Mason (24 December 1918 – May 1942) was a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> fighter pilot who was <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action">killed in action</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Coral_Sea" title="Battle of the Coral Sea">Battle of the Coral Sea</a>. </p><p>Mason was born in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> on 24 December 1918. He enlisted as a <a href="/wiki/Seaman_(rank)" title="Seaman (rank)">seaman</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Naval_Reserve" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Naval Reserve">United States Naval Reserve</a> on 7 November 1940 and on 10 February 1941 was appointed an aviation cadet. Assigned to U.S. Navy <a href="/wiki/VF-3" title="VF-3">Fighting Squadron 3 (VF-3)</a> aboard the <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_carrier" title="Aircraft carrier">aircraft carrier</a> <a href="/wiki/USS_Saratoga_(CV-3)" title="USS Saratoga (CV-3)">USS <i>Saratoga</i></a> as a <a href="/wiki/Grumman_F4F_Wildcat" title="Grumman F4F Wildcat">Grumman F4F Wildcat</a> fighter pilot in September 1941, he reported to VF-3 while it was stationed at <a href="/wiki/Marine_Corps_Air_Station_Ewa" title="Marine Corps Air Station Ewa">Marine Corps Air Station Ewa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Territory_of_Hawaii" title="Territory of Hawaii">Territory of Hawaii</a>, in January 1942 after <i>Saratoga</i> had been damaged by a <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japanese</a> <a href="/wiki/Submarine" title="Submarine">submarine</a> <a href="/wiki/Torpedo" title="Torpedo">torpedo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Later reassigned to <a href="/wiki/VFA-2" title="VFA-2">Fighting Squadron 2 (VF-2)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ensign_(rank)" title="Ensign (rank)">Ensign</a> Mason<span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s first and only aerial combat occurred during the Battle of the Coral Sea on 8 May 1942, when he disappeared during action with <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy" title="Imperial Japanese Navy">Imperial Japanese Navy</a> aircraft and was declared <a href="/wiki/Missing_in_action" title="Missing in action">missing in action</a>, probably the victim of <a href="/wiki/Mitsubishi_A6M_Zero" title="Mitsubishi A6M Zero">Mitsubishi A6M Zero</a> fighters from the Japanese aircraft carrier <a href="/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Sh%C5%8Dkaku" title="Japanese aircraft carrier Shōkaku"><i>Shōkaku</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mason was posthumously awarded the <a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Flying_Cross_(United_States)" title="Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)">Distinguished Flying Cross</a> for his skill and courage in battle. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Service_history">Service history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Mason_(DE-529)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Service history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Mason'</i>s keel was laid down in the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Navy_Yard" title="Boston Navy Yard">Boston Navy Yard</a>, on 14 October 1943. She was <a href="/wiki/Ship_naming_and_launching" class="mw-redirect" title="Ship naming and launching">launched</a> on 17 November 1943, sponsored by Mrs. David Mason, the mother of Ensign Mason, and <a href="/wiki/Ship_commissioning" title="Ship commissioning">commissioned</a> on 20 March 1944. </p><p>Following a shakedown cruise off <a href="/wiki/Bermuda" title="Bermuda">Bermuda</a>, <i>Mason</i> departed from <a href="/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina" title="Charleston, South Carolina">Charleston, South Carolina</a>, on 14 June, escorting a <a href="/wiki/Convoy" title="Convoy">convoy</a> bound for Europe, arriving at <a href="/wiki/Horta,_Azores" title="Horta, Azores">Horta Harbor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Azores" title="Azores">Azores</a>, on 6 July. She got underway from <a href="/wiki/Belfast" title="Belfast">Belfast</a>, Northern Ireland, headed for the <a href="/wiki/East_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="East Coast of the United States">East Coast</a> on 26 July, arriving at <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a> Harbor on 2 August for convoy duty off the harbor through August. </p><p>On 2 September, she arrived at <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> to steam on 19 September in the screen for convoy NY.119. <i>Mason</i> reached <a href="/wiki/Falmouth,_Cornwall" title="Falmouth, Cornwall">Falmouth, Cornwall</a>, with part of the convoy 18 October, and she returned to New York from <a href="/wiki/Plymouth" title="Plymouth">Plymouth</a>, England, and the Azores on 22 November. </p><p>On 18 October, <i>Mason</i> supported Convoy NY-119 in a severe North Atlantic storm.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ship suffered and self-repaired critical structural damage and still rescued ships from the convoy. The crew of <i>Mason</i> was not awarded a letter of commendation until 1994 for meritorious service during this action.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Mason</i> joined <a href="/wiki/Task_Force_64" class="mw-redirect" title="Task Force 64">Task Force 64</a> at <a href="/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia" title="Norfolk, Virginia">Norfolk, Virginia</a>, on 17 December. Two days later she sailed in convoy for Europe, passing by <a href="/wiki/Gibraltar" title="Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a> on 4 January 1945 to be relieved of escort duties. Continuing to <a href="/wiki/Algeria" title="Algeria">Algeria</a>, she entered <a href="/wiki/Oran" title="Oran">Oran</a> on 5 January for the formation of <a href="/wiki/Task_Force_60" title="Task Force 60">Task Group 60.11</a>. The escort ship cleared Oran 7 January. Four days later the <i>Mason</i> made <a href="/wiki/Radar" title="Radar">radar</a> contact with a surface target. She rang up full speed with all <a href="/wiki/Battle_stations" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle stations">battle stations</a> manned to attack the presumptive <a href="/wiki/Submarine" title="Submarine">submarine</a>, rammed, and dropped <a href="/wiki/Depth_charges" class="mw-redirect" title="Depth charges">depth charges</a>. Unable to regain contact, the ship returned to the contact point, where searchlight revealed the target—a wooden derelict about 100 by 50 feet (30 by 15 m). <i>Mason</i> then steamed to Bermuda for repairs, entering <a href="/wiki/St._George%27s_Harbor" class="mw-redirect" title="St. George's Harbor">St. George's Harbor</a> on 19 January. Five days later she reached the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Navy_Yard" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Navy Yard">New York Navy Yard</a>. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Negro_sailors_of_the_USS_MASON_commissioned_at_Boston_Navy_Yard_20_March_1944_proudly_look_over_their_ship_which_is..._-_NARA_-_520644.tif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Negro_sailors_of_the_USS_MASON_commissioned_at_Boston_Navy_Yard_20_March_1944_proudly_look_over_their_ship_which_is..._-_NARA_-_520644.tif/lossy-page1-250px-Negro_sailors_of_the_USS_MASON_commissioned_at_Boston_Navy_Yard_20_March_1944_proudly_look_over_their_ship_which_is..._-_NARA_-_520644.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="199" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Negro_sailors_of_the_USS_MASON_commissioned_at_Boston_Navy_Yard_20_March_1944_proudly_look_over_their_ship_which_is..._-_NARA_-_520644.tif/lossy-page1-375px-Negro_sailors_of_the_USS_MASON_commissioned_at_Boston_Navy_Yard_20_March_1944_proudly_look_over_their_ship_which_is..._-_NARA_-_520644.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Negro_sailors_of_the_USS_MASON_commissioned_at_Boston_Navy_Yard_20_March_1944_proudly_look_over_their_ship_which_is..._-_NARA_-_520644.tif/lossy-page1-500px-Negro_sailors_of_the_USS_MASON_commissioned_at_Boston_Navy_Yard_20_March_1944_proudly_look_over_their_ship_which_is..._-_NARA_-_520644.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2383" /></a><figcaption>Sailors of USS <i>Mason</i> commissioned at Boston Navy Yard 20 March 1944 proudly look over their ship. (National Archives and Records Administration)</figcaption></figure> <p>On 12 February <i>Mason</i> departed Norfolk in convoy for the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea" title="Mediterranean Sea">Mediterranean Sea</a>, arriving off Gibraltar on 28 February. She cleared Oran 8 March to guard a convoy to Bermuda and <a href="/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay" title="Chesapeake Bay">Chesapeake Bay</a> before returning to New York 24 March. After <a href="/wiki/Sonar" title="Sonar">sonar</a> exercises off <a href="/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut" title="New London, Connecticut">New London, Connecticut</a>, and fighter-director training with naval aircraft from <a href="/wiki/Quonset_Point,_Rhode_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Quonset Point, Rhode Island">Quonset Point, Rhode Island</a>, she steamed from Norfolk 10 April with another convoy to Europe, leaving the convoy at Gibraltar 28 April. <i>Mason</i> was two days out of Oran en route to the East Coast when the <a href="/wiki/End_of_World_War_II_in_Europe" title="End of World War II in Europe">end of World War II in Europe</a> was announced on 8 May. </p><p><i>Mason</i> arrived at New York on 23 May for operations along the East Coast into July. From 28 July to 18 August she served as a school ship for the Naval Training Center, <a href="/wiki/Miami,_Florida" class="mw-redirect" title="Miami, Florida">Miami, Florida</a>. On 20 August she arrived at New London to be outfitted for long-range underwater signal testing in the Bermuda area into September. <i>Mason</i> departed from Bermuda on 8 September for Charleston, arriving there two days later. <i>Mason</i> was <a href="/wiki/Ship_decommissioning" class="mw-redirect" title="Ship decommissioning">decommissioned</a> on 12 October, was struck from the <a href="/wiki/Naval_Vessel_Register" title="Naval Vessel Register">Naval Vessel Register</a> on 1 November 1945, and was sold and delivered to <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>, on 18 March 1947 for scrapping. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Arleigh_Burke-class_destroyer" title="Arleigh Burke-class destroyer"><i>Arleigh Burke</i>-class</a> <a href="/wiki/Destroyer" title="Destroyer">destroyer</a> <a href="/wiki/USS_Mason_(DDG-87)" title="USS Mason (DDG-87)">USS <i>Mason</i> (DDG-87)</a> was named in honor of <i>Mason'</i>s mostly <a href="/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American">African American</a> enlisted crew,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the 2004 <a href="/wiki/Film" title="Film">film</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Proud_(film)" title="Proud (film)">Proud</a></i> dramatizes their story. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Mason_(DE-529)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">30 July</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=United+States+Navy&rft.atitle=History&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.public.navy.mil%2Fsurflant%2Fddg87%2FPages%2FHistory.aspx&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUSS+Mason+%28DE-529%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Public Domain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/12px-PD-icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/18px-PD-icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/24px-PD-icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="196" data-file-height="196" /></span></span> <i>This article incorporates text from the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a> </i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_American_Naval_Fighting_Ships" title="Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships">Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships</a><i>. 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Chase"><i>Edgar G. Chase</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Edward_C._Daly" title="USS Edward C. Daly"><i>Edward C. Daly</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Gilmore" title="USS Gilmore"><i>Gilmore</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Burden_R._Hastings" title="USS Burden R. Hastings"><i>Burden R. Hastings</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_LeHardy" title="USS LeHardy"><i>LeHardy</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Harold_C._Thomas" title="USS Harold C. Thomas"><i>Harold C. Thomas</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Wileman" title="USS Wileman"><i>Wileman</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Charles_R._Greer" title="USS Charles R. Greer"><i>Charles R. 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Brown"><i>Walter S. Brown</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_William_C._Miller" title="USS William C. Miller"><i>William C. Miller</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Cabana" title="USS Cabana"><i>Cabana</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Dionne" title="USS Dionne"><i>Dionne</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Canfield" title="USS Canfield"><i>Canfield</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Deede" title="USS Deede"><i>Deede</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Elden" title="USS Elden"><i>Elden</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Cloues" title="USS Cloues"><i>Cloues</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Lake" title="USS Lake"><i>Lake</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Lyman" title="USS Lyman"><i>Lyman</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Crowley" title="USS Crowley"><i>Crowley</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Rall" title="USS Rall"><i>Rall</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Halloran" title="USS Halloran"><i>Halloran</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Connolly" title="USS Connolly"><i>Connolly</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Finnegan" title="USS Finnegan"><i>Finnegan</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_O%27Toole_(DE-527)" title="USS O'Toole (DE-527)"><i>O'Toole</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_John_J._Powers" title="USS John J. 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Lawe</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evarts-class_destroyer_escort" title="Evarts-class destroyer escort"><i>Willard Keith</i></a></li> <li>DE-315 (Unnamed)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Naval_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Naval_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Naval_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Naval_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Naval_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Naval_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a 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title="HMS Burges (K347)"><i>Burges</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Capel_(K470)" title="HMS Capel (K470)"><i>Capel</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Drury" title="HMS Drury"><i>Drury</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Cooke" title="HMS Cooke"><i>Cooke</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Dacres" title="HMS Dacres"><i>Dacres</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Domett" title="HMS Domett"><i>Domett</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Foley_(K474)" title="HMS Foley (K474)"><i>Foley</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Gardiner" title="HMS Gardiner"><i>Gardiner</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Garlies" title="HMS Garlies"><i>Garlies</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Goodall" title="HMS Goodall"><i>Goodall</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Goodson" title="HMS Goodson"><i>Goodson</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Gore" title="HMS Gore"><i>Gore</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Gould" title="HMS Gould"><i>Gould</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Grindall" title="HMS 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