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From the 1950s to 1975, the US Navy had three types of fast task force escorts and one type of convoy escort. The task force escorts were cruisers (hull classification symbols CAG/CLG/CG), frigates or destroyer-leaders (DL/DLG), and destroyers (DD/DDG); the convoy escorts were ocean escorts (DE/DEG), often called destroyer escorts as they retained the designation and number series of the World ...
The 46 Knox-class frigates were the largest, last, and most numerous of the US Navy's second-generation anti-submarine warfare (ASW) escorts. Originally laid down as ocean escorts (formerly called destroyer escorts), they were all redesignated as frigates on 30 June 1975, in the 1975 ship reclassification plan and their hull designation changed from 'DE' to 'FF'.
Frigates from battleships-cruisers.co.uk – history and pictures of United Kingdom frigates since World War II; Frigates from Destroyers OnLine – pictures, history, crews of United States frigates since 1963; The Development of the Full-Rigged Ship From the Carrack to the Full-Rigger
A small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, generally smaller than a frigate Cruise ship A ship used for carrying passengers on pleasure cruises Cruiser A warship that is generally larger than a destroyer, but smaller than a battleship Destroyer A warship mainly used for anti-submarine warfare Destroyer escort
DLG: Destroyer leader, guided missile (later frigate) (abolished 30 June 1975) DLGN: Destroyer leader, guided missile, nuclear-propulsion (later frigate) (abolished 30 June 1975) The DL category was established in 1951 with the abolition of the CLK category. CLK 1 became DL 1 and DD 927–930 became DL 2–5. By the mid-1950s the term destroyer ...
The battleship (Hiei) was sunk by aircraft (or possibly scuttled), one destroyer was sunk by the damaged USS Portland, and the other destroyer was attacked by aircraft but was able to withdraw. [66] Both of the damaged US anti-aircraft cruisers were lost on 13 November, one ( Juneau ) torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, and the other sank on the ...
DER: Radar Picket Destroyer Escort (abolished 30 June 1975) DL: Destroyer Leader (later Frigate) (retired) DLG: Guided Missile Frigate (abolished 30 June 1975) DLGN: Guided Missile Frigate (Nuclear-Propulsion) (abolished 30 June 1975) DM: Destroyer Minelayer (retired) DMS: Destroyer Minesweeper (retired) DSRV: Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle
Postwar destroyer escorts and frigates were larger than those produced during wartime, with increased anti-aircraft capability, but remained smaller and slower than postwar destroyers. [4] As Cold War destroyer escorts became as large as wartime destroyers, the United States Navy converted some of their World War II destroyers to escort ...