Allied Warships

USS Lansing (DE 388)

Destroyer Escort of the Edsall class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer Escort
Class	Edsall
Pennant	DE 388
Built by	Brown Shipbuilding Co. (Houston, Texas, U.S.A.)
Ordered	7 Aug 1942
Laid down	15 May 1943
Launched	2 Aug 1943
Commissioned	10 Nov 1943
End service	21 May 1965
History	Decommissioned 25 April 1946. Loaned to the United States Coast Guard and (re)commissioned by them as WDE-488 on 15 June 1952. Returned to the U.S.N. and decommissioned 29 March 1954. Reclassified as DER-388 on 21 October 1955. Recommissioned 18 December 1956. Decommissioned 21 May 1965. Stricken 1 February 1974. Sold 16 August 1974 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Lansing (DE 388)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lcmdr Simon Raymond Sands, Jr., USCG	10 Nov 1943	5 Jun 1944
2	Lcmdr Richard Foster Rea, USCG	5 Jun 1944	25 Jun 1945
3	Stephen George Carkeek, Jr., USCG	25 Jun 1945	25 Apr 1946

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Destroyers of World War Two
Whitley, M. J.

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