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DE- 387 USS VANCE

CLASS - Edsall
Displacement 1,250 Tons, Dimensions, 306' (oa) x 36' x 10' 5" (Max)
Armament 3 x 3"/50, 2x 40mmAA, 10x 20mm AA, 3 x 21" TT, 1 Hedgehog, 8 DCT's 2 DC racks.
Machinery, 6,000 SHP; 4 Fairbanks Morse Model 38d81/8 Geared Diesel Engines, 2 screws
Speed, 21 Knots, Crew 186.

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Brown Shipbuilding, Houston on April 30 1943.
Launched July 16 1943.
Commissioned November 1 1943.
Decommissioned February 27 1946.
Loaned to USCG and Recommissioned WDE-487, May 15 1952.
Returned USN and Decommissioned June 16 1954.
Reclassified and converted DER-387, October 21 1955.
Recommissioned October 5 1956.
Decommissioned October 10 1969.
Stricken June 1 1975
Fate Sunk as target in 1985.

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Vance 215k Pearl Harbor Hawaii, December 1968. © Richard Leonhardt
Vance 93k Undated, war time image. USN
Vance 37k VANCEs re-commissioning ceremony as a Coast Guard Cutter in the Philadelphia Navy Yard spring/early summer 1952. Note that VANCE is still sporting a "battle ship gray" hull but is showing her new Coast Guard hull number -- (W-487). In the background the stack and bridge of another WDE is visible -- I believe it's the Coast Guard Cutter DURANT (WDE-489) which was also in the Philadelphia Navy Yard for overhaul and recommissioning as a Coast Guard Cutter. USGC / James R. Kelly Capt. USCG ret.

USS VANCE DE- 387 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information

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Additional Resources
Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
USS VANCE Web Site By Joe Betters

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