>From the “Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships,” 

(1969) Vol. 2, p.439.





FRAMENT





	Paul Stanley Frament, born 4 February 1919 at Cohoes, 

N.Y., enlisted in the Naval Reserve 29 December 1941, and 

died 19 November 1942 of wounds received in action while 

serving as pharmacist’s mate third class with the Marine 

Corps on Guadalcanal.  He was posthumously awarded the 

Silver Star for his fearless devotion to duty in tending 

marines under fire.





DE-677

Displacement:  1,400 t.

Length:  306’

Beam:  37’

Draft:  9’5”

Speed:  24 k.

Complement:  186

Armament:  3 3”; 3 21” torpedo tubes;

	8 depth charge projectors;

	2 depth charge tracks;

	1 hedge hog

Class:  BUCKLEY



	FRAMENT (DE-677) was launched 28 June 1943 by Bethlehem 

Steel Co., Quincy, Mass.; sponsored by Mrs. Edward A. 

Frament, mother of Pharmacist's Mate Third Class Frament; 

and commissioned 15 August 1943, Lieutenant Commander S. T. 

McAdam, Jr., in command.  She was reclassified APD-77 on 15 

December 1944.



	FRAMENT began the demanding tasks of Atlantic convoy 

escort 19 October 1943, when she sailed from New York to 

escort tankers to Curacao and thence to Londonderry, 

Northern Ireland.  Sailing out of New York, and occasionally 

Boston, she escorted six convoys to Northern Ireland, one to 

Cherbourg, France, and one to Gibraltar, in the period from 

15 December 1943 to 3 December 1944, when she began 

conversion to a high-speed transport.



	After training on both coasts, FRAMENT arrived at Pearl 

Harbor 3 April 1945 for duty training with underwater 

demolition teams in the Hawaiian Islands.  Convoy escort 

duty took her to Eniwetok, Ulithi, and Leyte in May, and on 

the 29th she arrived at Okinawa, where she joined the outer 

patrol screen guarding the great number of ships off the 

island.



	Assigned to rescue duty in June, she proved herself on 

the 10th, when, with the help of small craft, she saved 

every man of destroyer WILLIAM D. PORTER (DD-579), sunk by a 

suicide plane.  Returning to the Philippines at the close of 

July, FRAMENT trained for the planned invasion of the 

Japanese home islands, and at the close of the war, took up 

duty with minesweepers operating in the Yellow Sea.  She 

served on occupation duty until 1 January 1946, when she 

sailed from Shanghai for the east coast.  On 30 May 1946, 

FRAMENT was placed out of commission, in reserve, at Green 

Cove Springs, Fla.



	FRAMENT received one battle star for World War II 

service.



	[Stricken from the Navy Register on 1 June 1960, former 

FRAMENT was transferred to Ecuador in July 1961 as a power 

hulk.



K. Jack Bauer and Stephen S. Roberts, “Register of Ships of 

the U. S. Navy, 1775-1990,” p.231.]





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