BYARD (DE-55/K-315)

Named for Sir T. Byard (Camperdown, 1798)

Type: TE
Builder: BHM
Laid down as USS DONALDSON
Keel laid 10/15/42
Launched 03/06/43
Commissioned 06/18/43
First CO: Lt Cdr L. H. Phillips, RN
Decommissioned, returned to USN 12/12/45
Stricken 02/07/46, scrapped
Unit of 4th EG
First DE and first Captain class to sink a U-boat - U-841

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

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