DE-387 Vance (Edsall Class)
Laid down by Brown Shipbuilding, Houston on April 30 1943.
Launched July 16 1943 and commissioned November 1 1943. 
Stricken June 1 1975, Sunk as target in 1985. More

The information below is from:
The Ships and Aircraft of the United States Fleet 
by James C. Fahey
Associate, United States Naval Institute
VICTORY EDITION
Copyright , 1944,

A Texas built DE, one of forty-seven diesel-powered FMR's Turned out by Consolidated Steel at Orange. The Brown Yard at Houston built thirty-eight sisters. 

The Destroyer Escort Roster honors many Heroes of this War. Five hundred and sixty-five DE's and APD-conversions are slated to complete. A few were still building in early 1945. Completion's already double the last war's flush-decker programs. Many inland fabricators and seventeen shipyards participated in the DE effort. Typically, a Colorado iron works pre-fabricated sections of DE's erected at the Mare Island Yard. On an even larger scale inland outfits participated in the huge Landing Craft programs that ran with and followed the DE programs. The DE's break  into long and short-hull classes, further divided by machinery types. 

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Through Summer 1943 Navies and Air Forces gained control of the Atlantic. As the U-Boat menace waned the DE program was curtailed. Landing Craft for the invasion of Europe took top priority. contracts for 305 DE's were canceled in September October 1943.

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