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USS Joseph E. Campbell (DE 70)

Destroyer Escort of the Buckley class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassBuckley 
PennantDE 70 
Built byBethlehem Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down5 Apr, 1943 
Launched30 Jun, 1943 
Commissioned23 Sep, 1943 
End service15 Nov, 1946 
Loss position
 
HistoryConverted to High Speed Transport and reclassified as APD- 49 on 24 November 1944.
Decommissioned 15 November 1946.
Stricken 1 December 1966.
Tansferred to Chile on 15 November 1966 being renamed Riquelme.
Riquelme was used for spare parts and stripped. 

Noteable events involving Joseph E. Campbell include:

4 May, 1944
The German submarine U-371 was sunk at 0409hrs on 4 May 1944 in the Mediterranean north of Constantine, in position 37º49'N, 05º39'E, by depth charges from the US destroyer escorts USS USS Pride and USS Joseph E. Campbell the French destroyer escort Sénégalais and the British escort destroyer HMS Blankney. (see map)


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