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These three pages encompass USS Vance 1943 - 1985 Page 1⁓ Page 2 ⁓ Page 3 ⁓

Photo by: Joseph Betters RM3, 1968
USS VANCE DER 387 (DER 387) Steaming off the coast of Vietnam July 1968.
Picture taken from the AE that I was unreped to.

DE-387 Vance (Edsall Class)
Laid down by Brown Shipbuilding, Houston on April 30 1943.
Launched July 16 1943 and commissioned November 1 1943. 
Stricken June 1 1975, Sunk as target in 1985. Read More

The information below is from: The Ships and Aircraft of the United States Fleet 
by James C. Fahey
Associate, United States Naval Institute
VICTORY EDITION
Copyright , 1944,

A Texas built DE, one of forty-seven diesel-powered FMR's Turned out by Consolidated Steel at Orange. The Brown Yard at Houston built thirty-eight sisters. 

The Destroyer Escort Roster honors many Heroes of this War. Five hundred and sixty-five DE's and APD-conversions are slated to complete. A few were still building in early 1945.

Completion's already double the last war's flush-decker programs. Many inland fabricators and seventeen shipyards participated in the DE effort. Typically, a Colorado iron works pre-fabricated sections of DE's erected at the Mare Island Yard. On an even larger scale inland outfits participated in the huge Landing Craft programs that ran with and followed the DE programs. The DE's break  into long and short-hull classes, further divided by machinery types. 

DE SYMBOLS
TEV      Turbo-electric drive, 5-inch guns
WGT      Geared-turbine drive, 5-inch guns
    TE    Turbine-electric drive, 3-inch guns
FMR      Geared-diesel, Fairbanks Morse reverse gear drive, 3-inch guns
DET      Diesel-electric tandem-motor drive, Long-hull, 3-inch gun
GMT      Diesel-electric tandem motor drive, short-hull

TYPE (CLASS) FMR (Edsall-129)
Number Built 85
Tonnage  Light 1,200    Full Load 1,490 Dimensions Length Overall 306' 0"
Beam 36' 10"
Maximum Draft 8' 7" (mean)
(dictionary of American Fighting Ships, Vol VII, (1981)
Machinery  Horse Power 6,000
Speed No performance data released.
This information was printed during the war and was classified
21 Knots from: dictionary of American Fighting Ships Vol VII, 1981
Armament  Main Battery 3-3"/50, 2 40mm., 8 20mm.
Torpedo Tubes 3-21" Triple Crew  220 WWII 150 as a DER

FMR CLASS DE's Hull Numbers 238-255, 316-338, 382-401
Through Summer 1943 Navies and Air Forces gained control of the Atlantic. As the U-Boat menace waned the DE program was curtailed. Landing Craft for the invasion of Europe took top priority. contracts for 305 DE's were canceled in September October 1943.

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