BLIGH (DE-76/K-467)

Named for Captain William Bligh, 1754-1817, known as "Breadfruit Bligh," (Camperdown)

Type: TE
Builder: BHM
Laid down as USS LIDDLE
Keel laid 05/10/43
Launched 07/31/43
Commissioned 10/22/43
First CO: Lt Cdr R. E. Blyth, RNVR
Decommissioned, returned to USN 11/12/45
Stricken 04/17/46
Sold 06/13/46
Unit of 5th EG
Served at Normandy
Assisted in sinking two U-boats

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

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