USS Estes (AGC-12) - Commissioning

Commissioning

Estes was launched on 1 November 1943 at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company in Wilmington, North Carolina, as Morning Star; acquired by the Navy on 22 February 1944; and commissioned on 9 October 1944, with Commander R. O. Mathews in command.

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