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Keel Laid - November 23, 1944 - North Carolina Shipbuilding Company
Launched - January 20, 1945 - Wilmington, North Carolina
Sponsor Miss Anne Lillian Dimond
Delivered to U.S. Navy - February 19, 1945
Commissioned - August 11, 1945 - Charleston, South Carolina
Decommissioned - July 2, 1973 - Bayonne, New Jersey
Sold to US Ship Company, Camden, New Jersey (for $152,666.00)
Dismantled - March to October 1974
 
 
 
Roster of Association Officers:
 
President: Ron Zimmerman Sr, SKCS(SW), USN(Ret)  
(772)621-4016 - ae17assn@bellsouth.net
         
Vice President: Jim Dunno, BT1, USNR(Ret)
(740)817-2177 - jdunno@columbus.rr.com
 
Secretary: Jack Norton
(772)335-9852- nortonae17@msn.com

 

 Treasurer: George "Webos" Kaiser, DCC, USNR(Ret) 
(610)237-1652 - dcckaiser@juno.com

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