USS Ramsden ( DE - 382 ) USS " Ramsden " ( DE - 382 ) was an Edsall - class destroyer escort built for the U . S . Navy during World War II . She served in the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys . Post - war , she performed other tasks with the U . S . Coast Guard and with the U . S . Navy as a radar picket ship . She was named in honor of Marvin Lee Ramsden who was awarded the Silver Star for his brave actions during the Battle of the Coral Sea . She was laid down 26 March 1943 by the Brown Shipbuilding Corp . , Houston , Texas ; launched 24 May 1943 ; sponsored by Mrs . James L . Ramsden , mother of " Coxswain Ramsden " ; and commissioned 19 October 1943 , Lt . Comdr . J . E . Madacey , USCG , in command . World War II North Atlantic operations . Following shakedown off Bermuda , " Ramsden " , manned by a Coast Guard crew and assigned to CortDiv 23 , steamed to New York , whence she sailed , 19 December , with her first convoy , NY - 47 to the Panama Canal Zone . Returning to New York 9 January 1944 , she commenced transatlantic runs on the 11th with UGS - 30 to Casablanca . Returning 23 February , she departed New York for Bizerte with UGS - 36 , 10 March . Steaming first to Norfolk , Virginia , where 62 more ships joined the 36 vessels from New York , the convoy headed across the Atlantic and into the Mediterranean . Before dawn on 1 April , Nazi bombers and torpedo planes led in by flare - dropping scouts attacked the Allied ships . Attacked by Luftwaffe Aircraft . In 15 minutes , 0405 to 0420 , the Luftwaffe damaged one merchantman and lost five aircraft , one to " Ramsden ' s " guns . Two days later the convoy reached Tunisia and on the 11th got underway for New York , arriving 2 May . Availability and exercises at Casco Bay preceded another convoy run to Bizerte where men and supplies were being readied to push further into Axis - controlled Europe . Completing that run at Boston , Massachusetts , 11 July , " Ramsden " shifted to the North Atlantic convoy lanes and , during the remainder of the war in Europe , escorted seven convoys to the United Kingdom and France . Transferred to the Pacific Fleet . With the collapse of Germany , " Ramsden " was transferred , with her division , to the Pacific . Transiting the Panama Canal 18 June 1945 , she called at San Francisco , California , then continued on to Adak , arriving 8 July . On the 15th , she shifted to Attu , whence she operated on plane guard duty for the remainder of World War II . End - of - War Activity . After Japan capitulated , the ship resumed escort duties , initially in the Aleutians , then , at the end of August , to Japan . On 9 September she brought auxiliary ships into Ominato Ko , Honshū ; and , on the 20th , headed back to the U . S . carrying returning veterans . Navy Day celebrations at Ketchikan interrupted her postwar duties , but in November she got underway , with replacement troops and equipment embarked for Okinawa . She arrived at Buckner Bay 25 November , joined the U . S . 7th Fleet , and on 11 December sailed for Tsingtao . Mail runs next took her to Manila and Shanghai whence she returned to Tsingtao 5 January 1946 . She remained there supporting occupation troops until 11 February when she sailed for the eastern coast of the United States . Arriving at Charleston , South Carolina , 22 March , " Ramsden " steamed to Jacksonville , Florida , 24 April , then shifted to Green Cove Springs , Florida , where she decommissioned 13 June 1946 and entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet . On Loan to the U . S . Coast Guard . Ordered activated after the outbreak of war in Korea , " Ramsden " was transferred to the U . S . Coast Guard and recommissioned 28 March 1952 with the Coast Guard hull designation WDE - 382 . Reporting for duty 1 April , " Ramsden " operated briefly on the west coast , then headed west to Honolulu , whence she operated on air - sea rescue patrol duty . On that duty for the next 2 years , she guarded the increased Pacific air traffic along routes between Hawaii and the mainland , Midway Island , Japan , and the Aleutians , and in the Aleutian and the Hawaiian Islands . Following the cessation of hostilities in Korea , and the subsequent decrease in air traffic , " Ramsden " returned to California , decommissioned at San Diego , California , on 10 April 1954 and reentered the Navy ' s Reserve Fleet 28 June 1954 . Converted to Radar Picket Ship Duty . Ordered activated and converted to an escort radar picket ship in 1956 , the escort arrived at Long Beach , California , 19 October for conversion and on 1 November was redesignated DER - 382 . Recommissioned 10 December 1957 , she underwent shakedown and training off the west coast and in March 1958 returned to the Hawaiian Islands , where she was once again homeported . Based at Pearl Harbor , she operated on barrier patrol duty stations from Midway Island to the Aleutians until the spring of 1960 when she returned to the west coast for inactivation . Final Decommissioning . Decommissioning 23 June 1960 , she again entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet and was struck from the Navy List on 1 August 1974 . She was later used as a target and sunk ; however , date of the sinking is not indicated in Navy records . Awards . " Ramsden " earned one battle star during World War II .