USS Camp (DE 251)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer Escort
Class	Edsall
Pennant	DE 251
Built by	Brown Shipbuilding Co. (Houston, Texas, U.S.A.)
Ordered	18 Jan 1942
Laid down	27 Jan 1943
Launched	16 Apr 1943
Commissioned	16 Sep 1943
End service
History	Decommissioned 1 May 1946. Reclassified as DER-251 on 21 October 1955. Recommissioned 31 July 1956. Decommissioned at an unknown date. Stricken by the U.S.N. on 30 December 1975. Transferred to South Vietnam 13 February 1971 being renamed Tran Hung Dao. Tran Hung Dao escaped with South Vietnamese forces to the Philippines in 1975. Transferred to the Philippines 5 April 1976 being renamed Rajah Lakandula. Rajah Lakundula was stricken in 1988.

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	Commander	From	To
1	Preston Baker Mavor, USCG	16 Sep 1943	22 May 1944
2	Russell Randolph Waesche, Jr., USCG	22 May 1944

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