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United States
Name	USS Crosley
Namesake	Walter Selywn Crosley
Builder	Dravo Corporation, Wilmington, Delaware
Laid down	23 June 1943
Launched	17 December 1943
Commissioned	10 February 1944
Identification	DE-108
Fate	Transferred to Free France, 11 February 1944
Stricken	14 May 1952
Free France
Name	Tunisien
Namesake	Tunisian
Acquired	12 February 1944
Identification	T23
France
Name	Tunisien (T23)
Namesake	Tunisian
Acquired	14 October 1945
Reclassified	Tunisien (F06) Tunisien (F706)
Fate	Returned to the US Navy in May 1964
General characteristics
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

Tunisien (T23, F706), was a Cannon-class destroyer escort in service with the Free French Naval Forces and the French Navy from 1944 to 1964. She was scrapped in 1964.

History

World War II

The ship was originally built as USS Crosley (DE-108), an American named for Rear Admiral Walter Selywn Crosley. Crosley was transferred to the Free French Naval Forces under lend lease on 12 February 1944, and renamed Tunisien (T23).

Tunisien participated in Operation Anvil-Dragoon on 15 August 1944.

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

Algerian War

Tunisien participated in the Algerian War in 1956. She was decommissioned and returned to the U.S. Navy in 1964 and scrapped.

See also

• List of escorteurs of the French Navy

References

1. "ex-Crosley (DE 108)". Navsource.org. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
2. "Tunisien". Alamer.fr. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
3. "HMS Tunisien F706 ex DE108". Desausa.org. Archived from the original on 6 November 2003. Retrieved 24 April 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

•  This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entries can be found here and here.

External links

• Photo gallery of Tunisien/Crosley (DE-108) at NavSource Naval History

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United States Navy	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)
Brazilian Navy Bertioga class	Bertioga (ex-Pennewill) Beberibe (ex-Herzog) Bracuí (ex-Reybold) Bauru (ex-McAnn) Baependi (ex-Cannon) Benevente (ex-Christopher) Babitonga (ex-Alger) Bocaina (ex-Marts)
Free French Naval Forces	Oise / Oise (ex-Cronin) Sénégalais / Yser (ex-Corbesier) Somali / Arago Hova Marocain Tunisien (ex-Crosley)
French Navy	Arabe (ex-Samuel S. Miles) Kabyle (ex-Riddle) Bambara (ex-Swearer) Sakalave (ex-Wingfield) Touareg (ex-Bright) Soudanais (ex-Cates) Berbère (ex-Clarence L. Evans) Malgache (ex-Baker)
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 Wild Beast class Aetos (ex-Slater) Ierax (ex-Ebert) Leon (ex-Eldridge) Panther (ex-Garfield Thomas)  Marina Militare Aldebaran class Aldebaran (ex-Thornhill) Altair (ex-Gandy) Andromeda (ex-Wesson)  Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Asahi class 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
Preceded by: Buckley class Followed by: Edsall class
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