USS Weeden ( DE - 797 ) USS " Weeden " ( DE - 797 ) was a in the United States Navy . She was named for Ensign Carl A . Weeden ( 1916 – 1941 ) , who was killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor . " Weeden " was laid down on 18 August 1943 at Orange , Texas , by the Consolidated Steel Corporation ; launched on 27 October 1943 , sponsored by Mrs . Alice N . Weeden ; and commissioned on 19 February 1944 , with Lieutenant Commander C . F . Tillinghast , Jr . , in command . Service history . World War II , 1944 – 1945 . After a fitting - out period complicated by the necessity for repairs to her power plant , the destroyer escort departed Galveston , Texas , on 30 March for her shakedown cruise . Arriving at Bermuda on 5 April , she spent the rest of the month in training exercises ; she left Bermuda on 1 May , and arrived in Boston , Massachusetts , on the 6th . She completed voyage repairs on the 14th and moved to Provincetown , Massachusetts , where she served for a month as target ship for the Atlantic Fleet Torpedo Squadron Training School . Near the end of June , she reported for duty in Escort Division 56 . On 4 July , she departed Boston in the screen of a convoy bound for Bizerte , Tunisia . The entire round - trip voyage , during which she escorted convoys in both directions , occupied her time until 18 August when she re - entered Boston . After training exercises at Casco Bay , Maine , she rendezvoused with another Bizerte - bound convoy near Norfolk , Virginia , in mid - September . About half way across the ocean , CortDiv 56 received orders to part company with the convoy and head for Plymouth , England , where they picked up a convoy of LST ' s bound for the United States . Arriving home on 25 October , she again completed voyage repairs and conducted anti - submarine warfare ( ASW ) exercises at Casco Bay . On 17 November , she joined another trans - atlantic convoy at Norfolk . That voyage took her via Gibraltar to Oran , Algeria , thence back to the United States at Boston where she arrived at the end of the last week in December . She completed repairs in the navy yard at Charlestown early in January 1945 , and then moved to Norfolk where she served briefly as a school ship . On 28 January , the destroyer escort departed Norfolk for duty with the Pacific Fleet . She transited the Panama Canal on 7 February and laid in a course for Manus in the Admiralty Islands , where she arrived late in the month . After a week of repairs at Manus , the warship received orders assigning her to the Philippine Sea Frontier and got underway for Leyte . From March to September , she served under that command , escorting convoys both among the various islands of the Philippines and between the Philippines and American bases in other island groups . Her first escort assignment was a round - trip voyage to Ulithi and back to Leyte . In April , she saw a convoy safely to Hollandia , New Guinea , and returned to Leyte with a formation of tugs . Early in May , she made a high - speed mail delivery on the Philippine circuit , visiting Zamboanga , Mindoro , Iloilo , Manila , and Subic Bay . For the remainder of May and the entire month of June , she operated in the Philippines , either patrolling the entrance to San Pedro Bay , Leyte ; escorting convoys from Leyte to Manila ; or making the inter - island mail run . In July , " Weeden " made two round - trip voyages escorting convoys between Leyte and Ulithi . At the conclusion of the second run , she steamed to Subic Bay where she joined the escort of a convoy bound for Okinawa . She departed Subic Bay on 27 July with a large group of LSTs and LSM s , and after evading a typhoon , arrived at Okinawa on 4 August . Three days later , the destroyer escort started back to Leyte . During her return voyage , the atomic bomb fell on Japan ; and soon after her arrival at Leyte , the Japanese capitulated . Post - war activities , 1945 – 1946 . Over the next few weeks , " Weeden " completed escort missions in support of the developing occupation of former Japanese territory . Late in August , she made a round - trip voyage to Okinawa and back to Manila . Following that , the destroyer escort screened a British escort carrier to Nagasaki , where the latter ship picked up former Allied prisoners of war for repatriation . On the return voyage , " Weeden " herself carried 70 Dutch former prisoners as far as Okinawa and then continued on to Subic Bay for repairs . En route , she received orders to assume plane guard duty on a station located about 100 miles north of Luzon . She performed that duty for four days and then resumed her voyage to the Philippines . She arrived in Subic Bay on 26 September and remained there , undergoing repairs , until 10 November . After a stop at Manila from 10 to 26 November , " Weeden " got underway to return to the United States . En route she stopped at Eniwetok and Pearl Harbor before arriving in San Pedro , California , on 17 December . After five months of inactivity , she was finally placed out of commission on 9 May 1946 , and was berthed with the San Diego Group , Pacific Reserve Fleet . Naval Reserve training , 1946 – 1957 . In November 1946 , " Weeden " resumed activity though she remained out of commission . On 20 November , she reported for duty training naval reservists in the 11th Naval District . After almost four years of that duty , she changed status once more when she was placed in commission , in reserve , on 26 May 1950 . Almost three months later , " Weeden " reported for duty with the Pacific Fleet , though her mission , Naval Reserve training in the 11th Naval District , appears to have remained the same . Over the next seven years her training cruises took her north to British Columbia , south as far as Callao , Peru , and west to the Hawaiian Islands . Her center of operations , however , remained the coast of California . Decommissioning and sale . On 26 November 1957 , " Weeden " began inactivation overhaul at Portland , Oregon . She was decommissioned on 26 February 1958 and was berthed at Astoria , Oregon , with the Columbia River Group , Pacific Reserve Fleet . She remained there just over a decade until 30 June 1968 , at which time her name was struck from the Navy List . She was sold to Zidell Explorations , Inc . , of Portland , Oregon , on 27 October 1969 for scrapping .