USS FRYBARGER DE 706

USS Frybarger DE/DEC 706

USS FRYBARGER DEC 705 (ex-DE 705)
"Underway"

Photo taken from the deck of USS Cabildo in the early 1950s. Nice to see a
Destroyer Escort doing turns. My Father, MM1 Don Fischer took the photo,
probably off the coast of San Diego during amphibious operations with
Frybarger as control ship.

Photo submitted by Scott Fischer

Laid down by Defoe Shipbuilding, Bay City Mich. on November 8 1943.
Launched January 25 1944.
Commissioned May 18 1944.
Decommissioned June 30 1947.
Reclassified DEC-705 (Destroyer Escort Control) December 13 1950.
Recommissioned October 6 1950.
Decommissioned December 9 1954.
Reclassified DE, December 27 1957.
Stricken December 1 1972.
Fate Sold November 27 1973 and broken up for scrap