USS Vance (DE 387)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer Escort
Class	Edsall
Pennant	DE 387
Built by	Brown Shipbuilding Co. (Houston, Texas, U.S.A.)
Ordered	7 Aug 1942
Laid down	30 Apr 1943
Launched	16 Jul 1943
Commissioned	1 Nov 1943
End service	10 Oct 1969
History	Decommissioned 27 February 1946. Loaned to the United States Coast Guard and (re)commissioned by them as WDE-487 on 15 May 1952. Returned to the U.S.N. and decommissioned 16 June 1954. Reclassified as DER-387 on 21 October 1955. Recommissioned 5 October 1956. Decommissioned 10 October 1969. Stricken 1 June 1975. Sunk as a target in 1985.

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Eric A. Anderson, USCG	1 Nov 1943	31 May 1944
2	Frank V. Helmer, USCG	31 May 1944	15 Jun 1945
3	Joseph James McClelland, USCG	15 Jun 1945	27 Feb 1946

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