| Navy | The US Navy |
| Type | Destroyer Escort |
| Class | Buckley |
| Pennant | DE 682 |
| Built by | Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 16 Sep, 1943 |
| Launched | 15 Oct, 1943 |
| Commissioned | 15 Nov, 1943 |
| Lost | 24 Jul, 1945 |
| Loss position | 19.20N, 126.42E (See a map) |
| History | Sunk by a Kaiten torpedo from the Japanese submarine I-53 in the Philippine Sea east-north-east of Luzon in position 19º20'N, 126º42'E Broke in two and foundered instantly, 112 of her crew were lost with the ship. |
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