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USS Edgar G. Chase (DE-16)

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Service history
World War II Post-War
Awards
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Ship class=Evarts class destroyer escort

Ship displacement=1,140 (standard), 1,430 tons (full)

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Ship complement=15 officers, 183 enlisted

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USS Edgar G. Chase (DE-16) was an Evarts-class "short-hull" destroyer escort in the service of the United States Navy named after Edgar Griffith Chase, executive officer of a destroyer lost at Guadalcanal in 1942.

Edgar G. Chase was launched on 26 September 1942 by Mare Island Navy Yard, Solano County, California as HMS Burges (BDE-16); sponsored for British Lend-Lease by Mrs. Ernest H. Wichels, but retained by the USN and assigned the name Edgar G. Chase on 19 February 1943; and commissioned 20 March 1943, Lieutenant Commander J. J. Morony in command.

Service history

World War II

Edgar G. Chase reported to the Submarine chaser Training Center at Miami, Florida, 4 June 1943, and for the next year trained student officers and patrolled off Florida. After a voyage in August 1944 from Norfolk, Virginia, to Recife, Brazil, screening {{USS|Tripoli|CVE-64|2}}, and returning with {{USS|Solomons|CVE-67|2}}. Edgar G. Chase sailed from New York on 19 September with a slow-moving convoy for England. With bad weather, the passage took a month; she got back to Norfolk on 22 November.

Edgar G. Chase made three voyages as convoy escort from New York and Norfolk to Oran from 19 December 1944 – 30 May 1945.

On 20 July, she returned to Miami, Florida, and her original training duty with the Small Craft Training Center.

Post-War

She arrived at Charleston, South Carolina on 9 September and was decommissioned there on 16 October 1945, being sold for scrap on 18 March 1947.

Awards

American Campaign Medal

European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal

World War II Victory Medal

References

{{DANFS|https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/e/edgar-g-chase-de-16.html}}

External links

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4 : Evarts-class destroyer escorts|World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States|Ships built in Vallejo, California|1942 ships

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