Navy | The US Navy |
Type | Destroyer Escort |
Class | Buckley |
Pennant | DE 789 |
Built by | Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd. (Orange, Texas, U.S.A.) |
Ordered | 13 Nov 1942 |
Laid down | 22 Apr 1943 |
Launched | 7 Aug 1943 |
Commissioned | 22 Nov 1943 |
End service | |
History | Converted to High Speed Transport an reclassified as APD-81 on 15 December 1944. |
Commands listed for USS Tatum (DE 789)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | William Cotesworth Pinchney Bellinger, USN | 22 Nov 1943 | 3 Feb 1945 |
2 | W.M.C. Howes, USNR | 3 Feb 1945 |
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