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Allied Warships

USS Barber (DE 161)

Destroyer Escort of the Buckley class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassBuckley 
PennantDE 161 
Built byNorfolk Navy Yard (Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down27 Apr, 1943 
Launched20 May, 1943 
Commissioned10 Oct, 1943 
End service22 Mar, 1946 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned 22 March 1946.
Stricken 27 November 1968.
Transferred to Mexico in December 1969 being renamed Chihuahua later renamed Jose Maria Morrlos Y Pavon (E-21). 

Noteable events involving Barber include:

26 Apr, 1944
The German submarine U-488 was sunk in the mid-Atlantic west of Cape Verde in position 17º54'N, 38º05'W by depth charges from the US destroyer escorts USS Frost, USS Huse, USS Barber and USS Snowden. (see map)


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