| Navy | The US Navy |
| Type | Destroyer Escort |
| Class | Cannon |
| Pennant | DE 764 |
| Built by | Tampa Shipbuilding Co. Inc. (Tampa, Florida, U.S.A.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 1 Mar, 1943 |
| Launched | 12 Dec, 1943 |
| Commissioned | 7 Feb, 1944 |
| End service | 17 Jun, 1946 |
| Loss position | |
| History | Decommissioned 17 June 1946. Stricken 26 March 1951. Transferred to Italy 10 January 1951 being renamed Altair. Altair was stricken and broken up in 1971. |
| Noteable events involving Gandy include: 16 Apr, 1944 Some two hours after the attack USS Joyce and USS Peterson together pick up 56 survivors from the American tanker Pan Pennsylvania that was the first and only ship sunk by U-550. (see map) |