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USS Barr (DE 576)

Destroyer Escort of the Buckley class


USS Barr

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassBuckley 
PennantDE 576 
Built byBethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down5 Nov, 1943 
Launched28 Dec, 1943 
Commissioned16 Feb, 1944 
End service12 Jul, 1946 
Loss position
 
HistoryConverted to High speed transport and reclassified as APD- 38 on 23 October 1944.
Decommissioned on 12 July 1946.
Stricken 1 June 1960.
Sunk as target of Puerto Rico on 23 March 1963. 

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