Name USS Duffy Laid down 29 October 1942 Decommissioned 9 November 1945 Launched 16 April 1943 | Namesake Charles John Duffy Commissioned 5 August 1943 Construction started 29 October 1942 Length 88 m | |
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Honors and
awards 2 battle stars (World War II) Builder Mare Island Naval Shipyard | ||
USS Duffy (DE-27) was an Evarts-class destroyer escort that served in the Pacific during World War II. She was named after Charles John Duffy.
Duffy was launched from the Mare Island Navy Yard on 16 April 1943, and was originally intended for transfer to the British Royal Navy. Instead, she was commissioned by the U.S. Navy on 5 August 1943, Commander G. A. Parkinson in command.
Service history
Duffy was mainly involved in escorting supply ships and as part of larger carrier groups, taking credit for downing a twin-engine Japanese "Betty" bomber in December 1944 at Leyte. On 29 December, Duffy fired a shore bombardment on Maloelap while covering air strikes. Duffy continued to bombard and wage psychological warfare on various bypassed islands, and on 14 June 1945, she took prisoner seven men of the cutoff garrison on Mille Atoll.
At the end of the war, Duffy sailed back to San Francisco, where she arrived on 26 July 1945. She was decommissioned there on 9 November 1945 and sold for scrap on 16 June 1947.