USS Gantner (DE 60)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer Escort
Class	Buckley
Pennant	DE 60
Built by	Bethlehem Shipyard Inc. (Hingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Ordered	10 Jan 1942
Laid down	31 Dec 1942
Launched	17 Apr 1943
Commissioned	23 Jul 1943
End service	2 Aug 1949
History	Converted to High Speed Transport and reclassified APD- 42 on 23 February 1945. Decommissioned 2 August 1949. Stricken 15 January 1966. Transferred to Taiwan 22 February 1966 being renamed Wen Shan. Wen Shan was stricken in 1991 and broken up for scrap in 1992.

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Barklie Mckee Henry, USNR	23 Jul 1943	Jan 1944
2	Bavier Robert N., Jr., USNR	Jan 1944	Dec 1944
3	Fred L. Seely, USNR	Dec 1944

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