| Navy | The US Navy |
| Type | Destroyer Escort |
| Class | Edsall |
| Pennant | DE 152 |
| Built by | Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd. (Orange, Texas, U.S.A.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 28 Feb, 1943 |
| Launched | 15 May, 1943 |
| Commissioned | 29 Sep, 1943 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
| History | Decommissioned 1 May 1946. Recommissioned 2 May 1952. Decommissioned at an unknown date. Stricken 1 August 1973. Sold 24 June 1974 and broken up for scrap. |
| Noteable events involving Peterson 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) |