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Destroyer escort (DE) was the United States Navy mid-20th-century classification for a 20-knot (37 km/h; 23 mph) warship designed with the endurance necessary to escort mid-ocean convoys of merchant marine ships. The Royal Navy and Commonwealth forces identified such warships as frigates, and that classification was widely accepted when the United States redesigned destroyer escorts as frigates (FF) in 1975.

Dealey class

INFO – Dealey class Destroyer Escort / DE

DE 1006 USS Dealey (1954)
DE 1014 USS Cromwell (1954)
DE 1015 USS Hammerberg (1955)
DE 1021 USS Courtney (1956)
DE 1022 USS Lester (1957)
DE 1023 USS Evans (1957)
DE 1024 USS Bridget (1957)
DE 1025 USS Bauer (1957)
DE 1026 USS Hooper (1958)
DE 1027 USS John Willis (1957)
DE 1028 USS Van Voorhis (1957)
DE 1029 USS Hartley (1957)
DE 1030 USS Joseph K. Taussig (1957)

Claud Jones class

	INFO – Claud Jones class Destroyer Escort / DE
	DE 1033 USS Claud Jones (1959) DE 1034 USS John R. Perry (1959) DE 1035 USS Charles Berry (1959) DE 1036 USS McMorris (1960)

Bronstein class

	INFO – Bronstein class Destroyer Escort / DE
	note: all Bronstein-class Destroyer Escorts were reclassified to Frigates (FF) on June 30, 1975 DE 1037 USS Bronstein (1963) – reclassified to FF 1037 DE 1038 USS McCloy (1963) – reclassified to FF 1038

Garcia class

INFO – Garcia class Destroyer Escort / DE

note: all Garcia-class Destroyer Escorts were reclassified to Frigates (FF) on June 30, 1975
DE 1040 USS Garcia (1964) – reclassified to FF 1040
DE 1041 USS Bradley (1965) – reclassified to FF 1041
DE 1043 USS Edward McDonnell (1965) – reclassified to FF 1043
DE 1044 USS Brumby (1965) – reclassified to FF 1044
DE 1045 USS Davidson (1965) – reclassified to FF 1045
DE 1047 USS Voge (1966) – reclassified to FF 1047
DE 1048 USS Sample (1968) – reclassified to FF 1048
DE 1049 USS Koelsch (1967) – reclassified to FF 1049
DE 1050 USS Albert David (1968) – reclassified to FF 1050
DE 1051 USS O’Callahan (1968) – reclassified to FF 1051

Knox class

INFO – Knox class Destroyer Escort / DE

note: all Garcia-class Destroyer Escorts were reclassified to Frigates (FF) on June 30, 1975
DE 1052 USS Knox (1969) – reclassified to FF 1052
DE 1053 USS Roark (1969) – reclassified to FF 1053
DE 1054 USS Gray (1970) – reclassified to FF 1054
DE 1055 USS Hepburn (1969) – reclassified to FF 1055
DE 1056 USS Connole (1969) – reclassified to FF 1056
DE 1057 USS Rathburne (1970) – reclassified to FF 1057
DE 1058 USS Meyerkord (1969) – reclassified to FF 1058
DE 1059 USS W. S. Sims (1970) – reclassified to FF 1059
DE 1060 USS Lang (1970) – reclassified to FF 1060
DE 1061 USS Patterson (1970) – reclassified to FF 1061
DE 1062 USS Whipple (1970) – reclassified to FF 1062
DE 1063 USS Reasoner (1971) – reclassified to FF 1063
DE 1064 USS Lockwood (1970) – reclassified to FF 1064
DE 1065 USS Stein (1972) – reclassified to FF 1065
DE 1066 USS Marvin Shields (1971) – reclassified to FF 1066
DE 1067 USS Francis Hammond (1970) – reclassified to FF 1067
DE 1068 USS Vreeland (1970) – reclassified to FF 1068
DE 1069 USS Bagley (1972) – reclassified to FF 1069
DE 1070 USS Downes (1971) – reclassified to FF 1070
DE 1071 USS Badger (1970) – reclassified to FF 1071
DE 1072 USS Blakely (1970) – reclassified to FF 1072
DE 1073 USS Robert E. Peary (1972) – reclassified to FF 1073
DE 1074 USS Harold E. Holt (1971) – reclassified to FF 1074
DE 1075 USS Trippe (1970) – reclassified to FF 1075
DE 1076 USS Fanning (1971) – reclassified to FF 1076
DE 1077 USS Ouellet (1970) – reclassified to FF 1077
DE 1078 USS Joseph Hewes (1971) – reclassified to FF 1078
DE 1079 USS Bowen (1971) – reclassified to FF 1079
DE 1080 USS Paul (1971) – reclassified to FF 1080
DE 1081 USS Aylwin (1971) – reclassified to FF 1081
DE 1082 USS Elmer Montgomery (1971) – reclassified to FF 1082
DE 1083 USS Cook (1971) – reclassified to FF 1083
DE 1084 USS McCandless (1972) – reclassified to FF 1084
DE 1085 USS Donald B. Beary (1972) – reclassified to FF 1085
DE 1086 USS Brewton (1972) – reclassified to FF 1086
DE 1087 USS Kirk (1972) – reclassified to FF 1087
DE 1088 USS Barbey (1972) – reclassified to FF 1088
DE 1089 USS Jesse L. Brown (1973) – reclassified to FF 1089
DE 1090 USS Ainsworth (1973) – reclassified to FF 1090
DE 1091 USS Miller (1973) – reclassified to FF 1091
DE 1092 USS Thomas C. Hart (1973) – reclassified to FF 1092
DE 1093 USS Capodanno (1973) – reclassified to FF 1093
DE 1094 USS Pharris (1974) – reclassified to FF 1094
DE 1095 USS Truett (1974) – reclassified to FF 1095
DE 1096 USS Valdez (1974) – reclassified to FF 1096
DE 1097 USS Moinester (1974) – reclassified to FF 1097

Brooke class

INFO – Brooke class Guided Missile Destroyer Escort / DEG

note: all DEG’s were reclassified to Guided Missile Frigates (FFG) on June 30, 1975
DEG 1 USS Brooke (1966) – reclassified to FFG 1
DEG 2 USS Ramsey (1967) – reclassified to FFG 2
DEG 3 USS Schofield (1968) – reclassified to FFG 3
DEG 4 USS Talbot (1967) – reclassified to FFG 4
DEG 5 USS Richard L. Page (1967) – reclassified to FFG 5
DEG 6 USS Julius A. Furer (1967) – reclassified to FFG 6

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