USS AMICK DE 168

USS Amick DE 168 Launch

USS AMICK DE 168

Launching, 27 May 1943
Kearny, N.J.

Photo submitted by Joanne Amick Comer,
sister of Eugene E. Amick, Jr., namesake of DE 168

Named for Ensign Eugene Earle Amick, b. 26 January 1914, Boonville, MO; KIA 9 August 1942 aboard ASTORIA (CA-34), Battle of Savo Island

Type: DET
Builder: FED
Keel laid 11/30/42
Launched 05/27/43
Commissioned 07/26/43
First CO: Lt Cdr Francis C. B. McCune
Decommissioned 05/16/47
To Japan as ASAHI 06/14/55
Returned to USN 1975
Redesignated as FF-168, 01/06/75
Stricken 06/15/75
Sold at scrap value to The Philippines as DATU SIRATUNA 09/13/76
Stricken 1984

Unit of CortDiv 15, Flag

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