USS Carroll DE 171

USS CARROLL DE 171

Named for Lieutenant Herbert Fuller Carroll, Jr., b. 16 September 1911, Baltimore, MD; KIA 9 August 1942 aboard ASTORIA (CA-34), Battle of Savo Island

Type: DET
Builder: NNY
Keel laid 01/30/43
Launched 06/21/43
Commissioned 10/24/43
First CO: Lt Cdr F. W. Kuhn (1)
Decommissioned 06/19/46
Stricken 08/01/65
Sold 12/29/66, scrapped
Unit of CortDiv 15
Served in Atlantic and Pacific
Searched Palau Islands for bypassed Japanese garrisons

From the research of Anne McCarthy,
with contributions by Pat Perrella and Pat Stephens, webmaster. March 2006