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Allied Warships

USS Hayter (DE 212)

Destroyer Escort of the Buckley class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassBuckley 
PennantDE 212 
Built byCharleston Navy Yard (Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down11 Aug, 1943 
Launched11 Nov, 1943 
Commissioned16 Mar, 1944 
End service19 Mar, 1946 
Loss position
 
HistoryConverted to High Speed Transport and reclassified as APD-80 on 1 June 1945.
Decommissioned 19 March 1946.
Stricken 1 December 1966.
Transferred to South Korea 23 July 1967 being renamed Jon Nam.
Jon Nam was stricken and scrapped in 1986. 

Noteable events involving Hayter include:

16 Jan, 1945
The German submarine U-248 was sunk in the North Atlantic in position 47º43'N, 26º37'W, by depth charges from the US destroyer escorts USS Hayter, USS Otter, USS Varian and USS Hubbard. (see map)


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