Allied Warships

USS Haines (DE 792)

Destroyer Escort of the Buckley class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer Escort
Class	Buckley
Pennant	DE 792
Built by	Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd. (Orange, Texas, U.S.A.)
Ordered	13 Nov 1942
Laid down	17 May 1943
Launched	26 Aug 1943
Commissioned	27 Dec 1943
End service	29 Apr 1946
History	Converted to High Speed Transport and reclassified as APD-84 on 15 December 1944. Decommissioned 29 April 1946. Stricken 1 June 1960. Sold 3 May 1961 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Haines (DE 792)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Elmer C. Powell, USNR	27 Dec 1943	18 Jun 1945
2	Howard J Laurent, USNR	18 Jun 1945	late 1945

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Notable events involving Haines include:

17 Feb 1944
Around 1600P/17, HrMs O 24 (Lt.Cdr. W.J. de Vries, RNN) departed Bermuda for Philadelphia. She is escorted by USS Haines (Lt.Cdr. E.C. Powell, USNR). (1)

20 Feb 1944
Around 0700Q/20, HrMs O 24 (Lt.Cdr. W.J. de Vries, RNN) and USS Haines (Lt.Cdr. E.C. Powell, USNR) arrived in the Delaware river estuary from Bermuda.

HrMs O 24 then proceeded to the Philadelphia Navy Yard where she was to refit.

USS Haines went to sea again to proceed to the Boston Navy Yard where she would be taken in hand for post work up repairs. (1)