USS Cannon

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USS Cannon (DE-99) underway in Delaware Bay on 5 September 1943 (NH 83390).jpg
USS Cannon (DE-99) on 5 September 1943
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US flag 48 stars.svgUnited States
NameUSS Cannon (DE-99)
Namesake George H. Cannon
Builder Dravo Corporation, Wilmington, Delaware
Launched25 May 1943
Commissioned26 September 1943
Decommissioned19 December 1944
Stricken20 July 1953
FateTransferred to Brazil
History
Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svgBrazil
NameBaependi
Acquired19 December 1944
Out of service1975
General characteristics
Class and type Cannon-class destroyer escort
Displacement1,240 long tons (1,260  t)
Length306 ft (93 m)
Beam36 ft 8 in (11.18 m)
Draft8 ft 9 in (2.67 m)
Speed21  kn (39  km/h; 24  mph)
Complement186
Armament

USS Cannon (DE-99) was a destroyer escort launched on 25 May 1943 by the Dravo Corporation in Wilmington, Delaware and was sponsored by Mrs. E. H. Cannon. Cannon was commissioned on 26 September 1943 and reported to the United States Atlantic Fleet. The ship was named in honor of George H. Cannon, a Medal of Honor recipient.

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Service history

On 30 November 1943, Cannon cleared Philadelphia for Trinidad, where she arrived on 5 December to begin a year of duty escorting convoys from that oil rich island to Recife and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. During this time, she made one voyage from Brazil to Gibraltar, guarding convoys whose tankers carried the fuel essential to the operations in the Mediterranean.

Cannon's protection of the Allied fuel supply through the sea lanes of the Caribbean and the Atlantic Narrows ended on 4 December 1944, when she arrived at Natal, Brazil to begin training a Brazilian crew in the operation of the ship. Cannon was decommissioned and transferred to Brazil on 19 December 1944 at Natal. She continued to serve in the Brazilian Navy as Baependi until 1975.

Awards

American Campaign Medal ribbon.svg World War II Victory Medal ribbon.svg
American Campaign Medal World War II Victory Medal

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