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Allied Warships

USS Pride (DE 323)

Destroyer Escort of the Edsall class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassEdsall 
PennantDE 323 
Built byConsolidated Steel Corp., Ltd. (Orange, Texas, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down12 Apr, 1943 
Launched3 Jul, 1943 
Commissioned13 Nov, 1943 
End service1 Jun, 1954 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned 26 April 1946.
Loaned to United States Coast Guard and (re)commissioned by them as WDE-423 on 20 July 1951.
Returned to the U.S.N. and decommissioned 1 June 1954.
Stricken 2 January 1971.
Sold 30 January 1974 and broken up for scrap.  

Noteable events involving Pride 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)

18 Mar, 1945
The German submarine U-866 was sunk in the North Atlantic north-east of Boston, in position 43º18'N, 61º08'W, by depth charges from the US destroyer escorts USS Lowe, USS Menges, USS Pride and USS Mosley. (see map)


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