BALFOUR K464

BALFOUR (DE-73/K-464)

Named for Captain Balfour (Battle of the Saints)
Type: TE
Builder: BHM
Laid down as USS MCANN
Keel laid 04/19/43
Launched 07/10/43
Commissioned 10/07/43
First CO: Lt Cdr C. D. B. Coventry, RN
Decommissioned 10/25/45 and returned to USN
Stricken 12/19/45
Sold 10/28/46, scrapped
Unit of 1st, 18th EGs

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