DEs Mouthballed at Green Cove Springs FL

US Navy DEs Mouthballed at Green Cove Springs, FL
c. Late 1947

Far Left:

DE 255 USS SELLSTROM - Commissioned 10/12/43. Decommissioned April 1946.
[Redesignated DER; Recommissioned 10/01/56-June 1960. Stricken 11/01/65
Sold 1966, scrapped April 1967.]

DE 245 USS SLOAT - Commissioned 08/16/43. Decommissioned January 1947. Stricken 01/02/71. Sold 04/05/72, scrapped.

Far Right:

DE 394 USS SWENNING - Commissioned 12/01/43. Decommissioned 06/18/46. Stricken 07/01/72. Sold 01/17/74, scrapped.
Unit of CortDiv 51 and awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for Atlantic ASW.

DE 132 USS ROBERT E. PEARY - Commissioned 05/31/43. Decommissioned 06/13/47. Stricken 07/01/66. Sold 09/06/67, scrapped.

Photo submitted by Ken Adams, RM2/c aboard
USS Edsall DE 129 & USS Walter B. Cobb APD 106