USS Marocain (DE-109)

History
Port side view of Free French Destroyer Escort Marocain (F-705).
United States
Name:	USS Marocain (DE-109)
Builder:	Dravo Corporation, Wilmington, Delaware
Laid down:	7 September 1943
Launched:	1 January 1944
Commissioned:	29 February 1944
Fate:	Transferred to Free France, 29 February 1944
Struck:	14 May 1952
History
Free France
Name:	Marocain (F-705)
Namesake:	Moroccan
Acquired:	29 February 1944
History
France
Name:	Marocain (F-705)
Acquired:	14 October 1946
Struck:	1960
Fate:	Returned to USN May 1964
General characteristics ^[1]
Class and type:	Cannon-class destroyer escort
Displacement:	1,240 long tons (1,260 t) standard 1,620 long tons (1,646 t) full
Length:	306 ft (93 m) o/a 300 ft (91 m) w/l
Beam:	36 ft 10 in (11.23 m)
Draft:	8 ft 9 in (2.67 m)
Propulsion:	4 × GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6,000 shp (4,474 kW), 2 screws
Speed:	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Range:	10,800 nmi (20,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement:	15 officers and 201 enlisted
Armament:	3 × single Mk.22 3"/50 caliber guns 1 × twin 40 mm Mk.1 AA gun 8 × 20 mm Mk.4 AA guns 3 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 1 × Hedgehog Mk.10 anti-submarine mortar 8 × Mk.6 depth charge projectors 2 × Mk.9 depth charge tracks

Marocain, was a frigate in the Free French Naval Forces during World War II and the French Navy post-war. The ship was originally built as USS Marocain (DE-109), an American Cannon-class destroyer escort.

History

During World War II, Marocain was transferred to the Free French Naval Forces under lend lease on 29 February 1944, and retained the name Marocain.

Marocain participated in Operation Anvil-Dragoon on 15 August 1944.^[2]

Ownership of the vessel was transferred to France on 21 April 1952 under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program.

Completed	Cannon Christopher Alger Thomas Bostwick Breeman Burrows Corbesier Cronin Crosley Marocain Hova Somali Carter Clarence L. Evans Levy McConnell Osterhaus Parks Baron Acree Amick Atherton Booth Carroll Cooner Eldridge Marts Pennewill Micka Reybold Herzog McAnn Trumpeter Straub Gustafson Samuel S. Miles Wesson Riddle Swearer Stern O'Neill Bronstein Raby / Baker Coffman Eisner William G. Thomas / Garfield Thomas Wingfield Thornhill Rinehart Roche Bangust Waterman Weaver Hilbert Lamons Kyne Snyder Hemminger Bright Tills Roberts McClelland Cates Gandy Earl K. Olsen Slater Oswald Ebert Neal A. Scott Muir Sutton

Canceled	DE-114 – DE-128 (Unnamed) Gaynier Curtis W. Howard John J. Van Buren Willard Keith Paul G. Baker Damon Cummings DE-757 – DE-762 (Unnamed) Rogers / Milton Lewis George M. Campbell Russell M. Cox DE-775 – DE-788 (Unnamed)

Post-World War II operators

Republic of China Navy	Tai Ho (ex-Thomas) Tai Tsang (ex-Breeman) Tai Hu (ex-Bostwick) Tai Chao (ex-Carter)

Hellenic Navy^D Wild Beast class	Aetos (ex-Slater) Ierax (ex-Ebert) Leon (ex-Eldridge) Panther (ex-Garfield Thomas)

Marina Militare	Aldebaran (ex-Thornhill) Altair (ex-Gandy) Andromeda (ex-Wesson)

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force	Asahi (ex-Amick) Hatsuhi (ex-Atherton)

Republic of Korea Navy	Gyeonggi (ex-Muir) Gangwon (ex-Sutton)

Royal Netherlands Navy Van Amstel class	Van Amstel (ex-Burrows) De Bitter (ex-Rinehart) Van Ewijck (ex-Gustafson) Dubois (ex-O'Neill) De Zeeuw (ex-Eisner) Van Zijl (ex-Stern)

Peruvian Navy	Aguirre (ex-Waterman) Castilla (ex-Bangust) Rodríguez (ex-Weaver)

Philippine Navy Datu Kalantiaw class	Datu Kalantiaw (ex-Booth) Datu Sikatuna (ex-Asahi) Rajah Humabon (ex-Hatsuhi) (Kyong Ki and Kang Won were sold to the Philippine Navy for parts)

Royal Thai Navy	Pin Klao (ex-Hemminger)

National Navy of Uruguay	Uruguay (ex-Baron) Artigas (ex-Bronstein)

D: Classified as destroyers by the Hellenic Navy

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