USS Formoe (DE 509)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer Escort
Class	John C. Butler
Pennant	DE 509
Built by	Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered	3 Feb 1943
Laid down	3 Jan 1944
Launched	2 Apr 1944
Commissioned	5 Oct 1944
End service	7 Feb 1957
History	Decommissioned 27 May 1946. Recommissioned 27 June 1951. Decommissioned 7 February 1957 and transferred to Portugal the same day being renamed Diogo Cao. Diogo Cao was stricken on 19 November 1968 and broken up for scrap.

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lcmdr John Curtis Spencer, USN	5 Oct 1944

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