BYRON (DE-79/K-508)

Named for Admiral Sir John Byron, 1723-1786, "Foul Weather Jack," (Grenada, 1779)

Type: TE
Builder: BHM
Keel laid 05/24/43
Launched 08/14/43
Commissioned 10/30/43
First CO: Lt K. C. L. Southcombe, RN
Decommissioned 11/24/45
Stricken 01/03/46
Unit of 21st EG, NORE
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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