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USS Cloues (DE-265)


Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - F - M - G
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: American Campaign Medal
Second Row: Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 3 stars - World War II Victory Medal - Philippine Liberation Ribbon
Class: Evarts      Type: GMT (diesel-electric tandem motor drive, short hull, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1,140 (std), 1,430 tons (full)    Dimensions: 289' 5" (oa), 283' 6" (wl) x 35' 0" x 11' 0" (max)
Armament: 3-3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1-1.1"/75 Mk2 quad AA (4x1), 9 x 20mm Mk 4 AA, 1 Hedgehog Projector
Mk10 (144 rounds), 8 Mk6 depth charge projectors, 2 Mk9 depth charge tracks
Machinery: 4 GM Model 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 19 knots    Range: 4,150 nm @ 12 knots    Crew: 15 / 183
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Boston NSY on 23 February 1943, Launched 6 April 1943
Commissioned 10 August 1943, Decommissioned 26 November 1945
Stricken 5 December 1945
Fate: Sold for scrapping 22 May 1947
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Cloues 7k Born 25 December 1917 at Warner, N.H., Edward Blanchard Cloues graduated from the Naval Academy on 6 June 1940. Ensign Cloues reported to USS Arizona (BB-39) 29 June 1940, and was killed in action when his ship was sunk at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack 7 December 1941.

USS Cloues (DE-265) was the first ship to be named in his honor.

(Photo from The USS Arizona BB-39 Web Site thanks to Nancy Nease)		 Bill Gonyo
Cloues 77k undated wartime image Kenneth E. Catlin
PO1, 43-45
Cloues 140k 12 February 1944: bow on view, off San Francisco. (US Navy Photo #DE-265-974-44) Darryl Baker
Cloues 116k 12 February 1944: stern view, off San Francisco. (US Navy Photo #DE-265-969-44)
View the USS Cloues (DE-265), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
None
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