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• USS Fessenden (DE-142)
  |Ship fate=Sunk as target off [[Pearl Harbor]], [[Hawaii]], 20 December 1967 ..., born in [[Brome County, Quebec]], [[Canada]], 6 October 1866. He served as head [[chemist]] with [[Thomas Edison]]'s [[East Orange, New Jersey]], labo
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• USS Moore (DE-240)
  |Ship fate=Sunk as target off [[Virginia]] 13 June 1975 ...Pacific, with others of her division, [[CortDiv]] 7, for which she served as [[flagship]], 24 June. On 4 August she arrived at [[Pearl Harbor]], where,
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• USS Otterstetter (DE-244)
  |Ship fate=Sunk as a target off [[Puerto Rico]] 15 February 1976 ...st of the United States and on 14 November joined a [[convoy]] and steamed as escort from [[Norfolk, Virginia]], to [[Casablanca]], [[French Morocco]]. S
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• USS Snowden (DE-246)
  |Ship fate=Sunk as target off [[Newport, Rhode Island]], 27 June 1969 ...pth charge]] patterns of 39 charges each. Two undersea explosions followed as [[German submarine U-488|''U-488'']] died.
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• USS Stanton (DE-247)
  |Ship fate=Scrapped or sunk as target ...named in honor of [[Rear Admiral]] [[Oscar F. Stanton]] (1834–1924). As rear admiral in 1893, Stanton commanded the South Atlantic Squadron and, th
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• USS Pettit (DE-253)
  |Ship fate=Sunk as target off [[Puerto Rico]] 30 September 1974 .... Into 1970 she was berthed at Norfolk. On 30 September 1974, she was sunk as target off [[Puerto Rico]].
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• USS Harveson (DE-316)
  |Ship fate=sunk as target off [[California]] 10 October 1967 ...ined Escort Squadron 10 at [[Newport, Rhode Island]], 30 May to begin duty as a radar picket ship. While on patrol, the former destroyer escort, outfitte
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• USS Ramsden (DE-382)
  |Ship fate=sunk as target (date unknown) ...performed other tasks with the [[U.S. Coast Guard]] and with the U.S. Navy as a [[radar picket]] ship.
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• USS Richey (DE-385)
  |Ship fate=Sunk as target off [[California]], July 1969 ...re she remained until struck from the [[Navy list]] 30 June 1968, and sunk as a target.
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• USS Cockrill (DE-398)
  |Ship fate=Sunk as target off [[Florida]], 19 November 1974 ...e was struck from the [[Navy list]] and, on 19 November 1974, she was sunk as target off [[Florida]].
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• USS Stockdale (DE-399)
  |Ship fate=Sunk as target off [[Florida]], 24 May 1974. ...t)|Junkers]]" made bombing runs on the convoy and the escorts. No merchant ships of the convoy were damaged, but {{USS|Holder|DE-401|2}} was [[torpedoed]] a
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• USS Savage (DE-386)
  |Ship fate=sunk as target off California on 25 October 1982 ...GE completed her training, and ship and crew reported to Norfolk, Virginia as members of the Atlantic Fleet.
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• USCGC Casco (WAVP-370)
  |Ship fate=Transferred to U.S. Navy 1969<br/>Sunk as target 15 May 1969 |Ship notes=Served as [[United States Navy]] [[seaplane tender]] [[USS Casco (AVP-12)|USS ''Casco
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• USS Casco (AVP-12)
  ...st Guard]] 19 April 1949<br/>Returned to [[U.S. Navy]] March 1969<br/>Sunk as target 15 May 1969 |Ship notes=Served as U.S. [[United States Coast Guard Cutter|Coast Guard cutter]] [[USCGC Casco
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• USCGC Coos Bay (WAVP-376)
  ...f the [[United States Coast Guard#Symbols|"racing stripe"]] marking on its ships. |Ship fate=Returned to U.S. Navy 2 September 1967<br/>Sunk as target 9 January 1968
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• USS Coos Bay (AVP-25)
  ...ast Guard]] 4 May 1949<br/>Returned to U.S. Navy 2 September 1967<br/>Sunk as target 9 January 1968 |Ship notes=Servd in Coast Guard as [[United States Coast Guard Cutter|cutter]] [[USCGC Coos Bay (WAVP-376)|USC
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• USS Unimak (AVP-31)
  ...ently transferred from U.S. Navy to Coast Guard 26 September 1966<br/>Sunk as [[artificial reef]] after decommissioning in 1988 |Ship notes=Served as [[United States Coast Guard Cutter|Coast Guard cutter]] [[USCGC Unimak (WAV
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• USCGC Dexter (WAVP-385)
  ...f the [[United States Coast Guard#Symbols|"racing stripe"]] marking on its ships. ...tm</ref> 19 July 1946,<ref>Per the ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b6/biscayne-i.htm</ref> or 29 July 1
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• USS Willoughby (AGP-9)
  |Ship notes=Served in U.S. Coast Guard as [[USCGC Gresham (WAVP-387)|USCGC ''Gresham'' (WAVP-387)]], later WHEC-387, ...tate)|Washington]], by [[Lake Washington Shipyards]]. She was reclassified as a motor torpedo boat tender and redesignated AGP-9 on 11 May 1943. Launched
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• Mark 14 torpedo
  ...ne]]s of WW1,<ref name="Blair, p.54">Blair, p.54.</ref> designed to "break ships' backs" (fracture their keels) by causing explosions beneath them, where wa Designated as Project G53,<ref name="Blair, p.55">Blair, p.55.</ref> "behind the tightest
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