Allied Warships

USS Holder (DD 819)

Destroyer of the Gearing class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassGearing 
PennantDD 819 
Built byConsolidated Steel Corp., Ltd. (Orange, Texas, U.S.A.) 
Ordered14 Jun 1943 
Laid down23 Apr 1945 
Launched25 Aug 1945 
Commissioned18 May 1946 
End service 
History

Decommissioned at an unknown date.
Stricken 1 October 1976.
Transferred to Ecuador 23 February 1977 being renamed Presidente Elroy Alfaro.
Presidente Elroy Alfaro was stricken and broken up for scrap in 1991.

 

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Whitley, M. J.


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