Ships built in Michigan

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 70. Chapters: USS Bunch, USS Weiss, USS Voge, USS Bull, USS Marsh, HMAS Brisbane, USS Kleinsmith, HMAS Hobart, USS Walter X. Young, USS Spangler, USCGC Escanaba, USS Rich, USS Holt, RV Melville, USCGC Onondaga, HNoMS Hitra, USS George, USS Lester, USS PC-1119, USS Wolverine, USS Gosselin, USS Raby, USS Hoel, USS Skimmer, USS Begor, USS Chickadee, USS Balduck, USS Lake Arthur, SS Henry Steinbrenner, USS PC-1136, USS Cook, USS Burdo, SS City of Erie, Tashmoo, USS PC-1141, USS Parle, USS Bunting, USS O'Callahan, USS Holton, USS Cavallaro, USS Carpellotti, USS Cronin, USS PC-1137, USC&GS Guide, USS Jobb, USS Frybarger, USS LCI(L)-1091, USS Bobolink, USS Nuthatch, USS Currier, USS Courtney, USS Donald W. Wolf, RV Knorr, HMAS Perth, USS Osmus, City of Detroit III, USS Voyager, USS Koelsch, USS Broadbill, USS Wapasha, USS Carlinville, USS Earl V. Johnson, USS Sentinel, USCGC Dexter, USS Killarney, USS Cleo, USS Betty M. II, USS Ionita, USS Bray, USNS Wyman, USS Miss Toledo, USC&GS Mikawe, USS Ozama, USS Ono, USS Mustang, USS PC-1142, USS Mikawe, USS SC-500, USS Onward II, USS PC-1140, USS Pheasant, USS PC-1138, USS PC-586, USS Carib, USS Potomac, USNS S. P. Lee, USS Raritan, USS Castine, SS Norlantic, USC&GS Hilgard, USC&GS Wainwright, USS PGM-2, USS Ability, USS Aeolus, USS Namontack, USS SC-499, USCGC Tahoma, USS LCI(L)-1092, USS Bold, USS PC-542, USS PC-472, USS PC-1129, USS Halcyon, SS Empire Kestrel, George A. Marsh. Excerpt: USS Bunch (DE-694) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, named after Kenneth Cecil Bunch, killed in action on 6 June 1942 while flying as radioman-gunner in an SBD Dauntless dive bomber during the Battle of Midway. Bunch was launched on 29 May 1943 by the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan, sponsored by Mrs. Kenneth C. Bunch, widow of Aviation Radioman Bunch; and commissioned on 21 August 1943, with Lieutenant Commander A. A. Campbell, USNR, in command. After fitting out, Bunch departed Southwest Pass on 12 September 1943. She proceeded via Key West, Florida, and carried out her shakedown training near Bermuda until 15 October when she set course for Boston. Following post-shakedown availability at the Boston Navy Yard, the warship moved to New York whence she began her escort work on 1 November by shepherding the New York section of Convoy UGS-23 out of coastal waters. That same day, she made a sonar contact and attacked it with two "Hedgehog" patterns, though she later evaluated it as "non-submarine." Released the following day, Bunch proceeded to Hampton Roads, where she reported for duty with Task Force (TF) 23. Over the next eight months, the destroyer escort made six round-trip voyages across the Atlantic escorting convoys between New York and Derry, punctuating that work with refresher training at Casco Bay, Maine, and availabilities at Boston. On 28 July, Bunch began conversion to a high speed transport at the Naval Frontier Base, Tompkinsville, Staten Island. Redesignated APD-79 on 31 July 1944, she was also fitted out as a flagship during the 11 weeks of modifications. She completed conversion on 12 October and departed New York on the 13th. Steaming first to Hampton Roads and thence up the Chesapeake Bay, Bunch briefly visited Annapolis, Maryland, before she began training duty in the Bay. Between 23 October and 10 December, Bunch helped to prepare 11 other crews for their service in high-speed transports. Following