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
In Boston Harbor on 22 February 1963. Notice the
experimental Variable Depth Sonar (VDS) on her stern.
National Archives
#428G1073577
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
Sonar pod work on 1 April 1960. This is the only
known close up of the sonar pod in the National Archives.