Allied Warships

USS Finch (DE 328)

Destroyer Escort of the Edsall class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer Escort
Class	Edsall
Pennant	DE 328
Built by	Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd. (Orange, Texas, U.S.A.)
Ordered	7 Aug 1942
Laid down	29 Jun 1943
Launched	28 Aug 1943
Commissioned	13 Dec 1943
End service	1 Oct 1973
History	Decommissioned 4 October 1946. Loaned to the United States Coast Guard and (re)commissioned by them as WDE-428 on 21 August 1951. Returned to the U.S.N. and decommissioned 23 April 1954. Reclassified as DER-328 on 21 October 1955. Recommissioned 17 September 1956. Decommissioned 1 October 1973. Stricken 1 February 1974. Sold 16 August 1974 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Finch (DE 328)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Albert Henry Nienau, USNR	13 Dec 1943	28 Apr 1944

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Destroyers of World War Two
Whitley, M. J.

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