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|Ship flag={{USN flag|1946}}
|Ship name=USS Hurst (DE-250)
|Ship namesake=[[Edwin William Hurst]]
|Ship builder=[[Brown Shipbuilding]] [[Houston, Texas]]
|Ship laid down=27 January 1943
|Ship launched=14 April 1943
|Ship sponsor=Mrs. Jeanette Harris Hurst
|Ship commissioned=30 August 1943
|Ship decommissioned=1 May 1946
|Ship struck=1 December 1972
|Ship fate=transferred to [[Mexican Navy]], 1 October 1973
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|Ship country=Mexico
|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Mexico|naval}}
|Ship name=ARM ''Commodore Manuel Azueta'' (A06)<ref name=Wertheim>{{cite book | editor-last = Wertheim | editor-first = Eric | edition = 15th | title = The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World: Their Ships, Aircraft, and Systems | chapter = Mexico | location = [[Annapolis, Maryland]] | publisher = [[Naval Institute Press]] | year = 2007 | isbn = 9781591149552 | oclc = 140283156 | pages = 472–73 }}</ref>
|Ship namesake=[[Manuel Azueta]]
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|Ship renamed=ARM ''Commodore Manuel Azueta Perillos'' (E30), 1994<ref name=Wertheim />
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|Ship displacement=1,253&nbsp;tons standard<br/>1,590&nbsp;tons full load
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|Ship beam={{convert|36.58|ft|m|abbr=on}}
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|Ship propulsion=4&nbsp;[[Fairbanks-Morse|FM]]&nbsp;[[diesel engine]]s, <br/>4&nbsp;diesel-[[Engine-generator|generator]]s, <br/>6,000&nbsp;shp (4.5&nbsp;MW), <br/>2&nbsp;screws
|Ship speed={{convert|21|knots|km/h}}
|Ship endruance={{endurance|9100|nmi|km|12|knots|km/h}}
|Ship complement=8 officers, 201 enlisted
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'''USS Hurst (DE-250)''' was an {{sclass|Edsall|destroyer escort}} built for the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She was [[laid down]] in January 1943 and [[launched (ship)|launched]] in August the same year by the widow of namesake [[Edwin William Hurst]], who had been awarded two [[Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)|Distinguished Flying Crosses]] earlier in the war. The ship served in both the Atlantic and the Pacific and was decommissioned in May 1946 and placed in reserve for the next 27 years.

In October 1973, the former ''Hurst'' was acquired by the [[Mexican Navy]] and renamed '''ARM ''Comodoro Manuel Azueta'' (A06)''' but was renamed '''ARM ''Comodoro Manuel Azueta Perillos''''' in 1994. When she reverted to her original Mexican name in 2001, she was assigned [[pennant number]] ''D111'' and reclassified as [[destroyer]]. {{As of|2007}},<ref name=Wertheim /> ''Comodoro Manuel Azueta'' remained in active service as a [[training vessel]] for Mexico's Gulf Fleet.

== U.S. Navy career ==
''Hurst'' was [[launched (ship)|launched]] by [[Brown Shipbuilding]] Co., [[Houston, Texas]], 14 April 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Jeanette Harris Hurst, widow of the [[Edwin William Hurst|ship's namesake]]; and commissioned 30 August 1943, Lt. Comdr. B. H. Brallier commanding.

''Hurst'' departed Houston 3 September and after a short period of outfitting at [[Galveston, Texas]], sailed 12 September for [[Shakedown (testing)|shakedown]] training off [[Bermuda]]. After returning briefly to [[Charleston, South Carolina]], in November and screening a convoy to the [[Caribbean]], Hurst arrived [[Norfolk, Virginia]], 29 November 1943 to join Escort Division 20.

Assigned to protect ocean commerce from [[submarines]], ''Hurst'' departed Norfolk with her first [[convoy]] 14 December 1943, stopped at [[Casablanca]], and returned to [[New York]] 24 January 1944. She then conducted gunnery and [[antisubmarine]] warfare exercises in [[Casco Bay]], [[Maine]], before sailing with another convoy from New York 23 February. Enemy action was not the only hazard on such voyages as two days out of New York merchant vessels {{SS|El Coston||2}} and {{SS|Murfreesboro||2}} collided and sank during a heavy gale, the survivors being taken on board one of the escort ships. ''Hurst'' reached [[Lisahally]], [[Northern Ireland]], 5 March 1944, and one week later returned to New York with another convoy.
 
''Hurst'' made no less than 10 more escort voyages from [[Boston, Massachusetts]], or New York to ports in the United Kingdom before returning to New York on 11 June 1945. After her final Atlantic voyage, the destroyer escort sailed with her division for training in [[Chesapeake Bay]] and at [[Guantanamo Bay, Cuba]]. 

Reassigned to the Pacific Fleet for these last months of the war, she transited the [[Panama Canal]] and sailed for [[Pearl Harbor]] via [[San Diego, California]], arriving at the Hawaiian port on 26 July 1945. There the ship took part in exercises with submarines and departed 27 August for the [[Samoan Islands]] on 27 August. Arriving [[Pago Pago]] 25 September, ''Hurst'' spent the next weeks steaming among the small outlying islands of the Samoan, [[Fiji Islands|Fiji]], and [[Society Islands|Society]] and other island groups, sending parties ashore to search for missing personnel and to investigate possible remaining enemy units. Completing this duty she departed Pago Pago 3 November 1945 and sailed for San Diego via [[Pearl Harbor]]. She arrived at San Diego on 23 November and sailed two days later for New York via the [[Panama Canal]]. 

''Hurst'' entered New York harbor 10 December 1945, sailed to [[Green Cove Springs, Florida]], and was decommissioned there on 1 May 1946. She then entered the [[Atlantic Reserve Fleet]] at Green Cove Springs. In January 1947 ''Hurst'' was transferred to [[Orange, Texas]]. She was struck from the [[Naval Vessel Register]] on 1 December 1972. On 1 October 1973, ''Hurst'' was transferred to the [[Mexican Navy]].

== Mexican Navy career ==
The former ''Hurst'' was acquired by the [[Mexican Navy]] on 1 October 1973 and renamed ARM ''Commodore Manuel Azueta'' (A06) after [[Manuel Azueta]], who was Commodore of the [[Naval Academy (Mexico)|Naval Academy]] during the 1914 [[United States occupation of Veracruz]]. In 1994, the ship was renamed ARM ''Commodore Manuel Azueta Perillos'' (E30). At this same time, her armament was modernized with [[Oto Melara]] [[Otobreda 76 mm|76 mm compact guns]] replacing a pair of the original U.S. Navy [[3"/50 caliber gun|{{convert|3|in|mm|adj=on}} Mark 26 guns]]. In addition, the [[superfiring]] 3-inch gun forward was replaced with a quadruple 40 mm AA mount. By 1998, however, the original armament had been restored.<ref name=Wertheim />

In 2001, the ship reverted to her original Mexican Navy name of ''Commodore Manuel Azueta'', was reclassed as a [[destroyer]], and assigned the new [[pennant number]] of ''D111''. Used primarily as a [[training vessel]] for Mexico's Gulf Fleet, ''Commodore Manuel Azueta'' remained in active service {{as of|2007|lc=on}}. In her current configuration, all anti-submarine equipment and all of the original U.S. Navy radar-controlled [[gun director]]s have been removed.<ref name=Wertheim />

== Notes ==
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==References==
*{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/h9/hurst-ii.htm}}
* [http://www.navsource.org/archives/06/250.htm NavSource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive - USS Hurst (DE-250)]

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