USS Lansing (DE 388)

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.

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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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