Keywords: USS Carpenter (DDK-825) at pier c1949.jpg The U S Navy destroyer USS Carpenter DDK-825 Carpenter was commissioned on 15 December 1949 as the first DDK hunter-killer anti-submarine destroyer However while Carpenter was fitting out at Norfolk Virginia USA the ship's designation was changed to escort destroyer DDE on 4 March 1950 http //www navy mil/ah_online/department_arch html U S Navy All Hands magazine http //www navy mil/ah_online/archpdf/ah195002 pdf February 1950 p 25 ca 1949-12 U S Navy All photographs published in ALL HANDS are official U S Navy photographs unless otherwise designated PD-USGov-Military-Navy USS Carpenter DD-825 |