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USS DON O. WOODS

(APD-118)

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APD-118 Deployments - Major Events

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Month Year to Month Year Deployment / Event
DEC 1943 Keel Date: 1 DEC 1943
at Defoe Shipbuilding Company Bay City MI
FEB 1944 Launch Date: 9 FEB 1944
MAY 1945 Commissioned: 28 MAY 1945
JUN 1946 Decommissioned: 18 JUN 1946

APD-118 General Specifications

Class: Rudderow class destroyer escort

Named for: Don O. Woods

Complement: 256 Officers and Enlisted

Displacement: 1450 tons

Length: 306 feet

Beam: 36 feet 10 inches

Flank Speed: 24 knots

Final Disposition: Transferred to Mexican Navy 12 December 1963