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

(1969) Vol. 2, p.26.





CANNON





	Born at St. Louis, Mo., 5 November 1915, George H. 

Cannon accepted appointment as second lieutenant in the 

United States Marine Corps on 27 June 1938.  With the 6th 

Defense Battalion on Midway Island, Lieutenant Cannon was 

killed in action during the bombardment of Sand Island by 

Japanese forces on 7 December 1941.  For his distinguished 

conduct in the line of his profession, extraordinary 

courage, and disregard of his own condition during that 

bombardment, he was posthumously awarded the Congressional 

Medal of Honor.





DE-99

Displacement:  1,240 t.

Length:  306’

Beam:  36’8”

Draft:  8’9”

Speed:  21 k.

Complement:  186

Armament:  3 3”; 3 21” torpedo tubes;

	2 depth charge tracks;

	8 depth charge projectors;

	1 hedge hog

Class:  CANNON



	CANNON (DE-99) was launched 25 May 1943 by Dravo Corp., 

Wilmington, Del.; sponsored by Mrs. E. H. Cannon; 

commissioned 26 September 1943, Lieutenant Commander G. 

Morris in command, and reported to the Atlantic Fleet.



	On 30 November 1943, CANNON cleared Philadelphia for 

Trinidad, where she arrived 5 December to begin a year of 

duty escorting convoys from that oil rich island to Recife 

and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  During this time, she made one 

voyage from Brazil to Gibraltar, guarding convoys whose 

tankers carried the fuel essential to the success of 

operations in the Mediterranean.



	CANNON's protection of the Allied fuel supply through 

the dangerous sea lanes of the Caribbean and the Atlantic 

Narrows ended on 4 December 1944, when she arrived at Natal, 

Brazil, to begin training a Brazilian crew in the operation 

of the ship.  CANNON was decommissioned and transferred to 

Brazil on 19 December 1944 at Natal.  Through 1960, she 

continued to serve in the Brazilian Navy as destroyer escort 

BAEPENDI.



	[Former USS CANNON was stricken from the US Navy 

Register on 20 July 1953.  BAEPENDI was disposed of by the 

Brazilian Navy in 1974.



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

	the U. S. Navy, 1775-1990,” p.222.

“Conway’s All The World’s Fighting Ships, 1922-1946,” p.417; 

	“1947-1995,” p.30.

“Jane’s Fighting Ships, 1975-76, p.44 says BAEPENDI was 

	disposed of in 1973.]





Transcribed by Michael Hansen

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