USS Maloy (DE/EDE-791)

Operational and Building Data
Class: Buckley (TE)

Laid down by: Consolidated Shipbuilding, Orange, TX
Laid Down: 10 May 1943
Launched:
18 August 1943
Commissioned: 
13 December 1943
Decommissioned:
29 April 1946
Fate: 
Sold for scrap 11 March 1966

    Taken while wearing her "war paint" (Measure 32/3D) on 7 February 1944 outside Boston Harbor. 


National Archives #80G382808

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    In Boston Harbor on 22 February 1963. Notice the experimental Variable Depth Sonar (VDS) on her stern.


National Archives #428G1073577

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    In Boston Harbor on 22 February 1963. The Maloy is carrying the experimental Variable Depth Sonar (VDS) on her stern.  This is the only known installation of the VDS on a Destroyer Escort.
    The lower photograph is a blow-up of the VDS.

National Archives #428G1073578
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    Sonar pod work on 1 April 1960.  This is the only known close up of the sonar pod in the National Archives.

 

National Archives #428G1081318

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