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types. The ocean escorts were intended as convoy escorts and were designed for mobilization production in wartime or low-cost mass production in peacetime. They were commissioned from 1954 through 1974, serving in the
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guided missile added. Ships similar or identical to the World War II destroyer escorts and the Cold War ocean escorts were called "frigates" in most other navies.
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Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major
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382:Archived
367:Archived
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51:USS
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254:See also
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83:and the
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