USS Camp (DE 251)
Destroyer Escort of the Edsall class
Type Destroyer Escort
Class Edsall
Pennant DE 251
Built by Brown Shipbuilding Co. (Houston, Texas, U.S.A.)
Laid down 27 Jan 1943
Launched 16 Apr 1943
Commissioned 16 Sep 1943
Decommissioned 1 May 1946.
Reclassified as DER-251 on 21 October 1955.
Recommissioned 31 July 1956.
Decommissioned at an unknown date.
Stricken by the U.S.N. on 30 December 1975.
Transferred to South Vietnam 13 February 1971 being renamed Tran Hung Dao.
Tran Hung Dao escaped with South Vietnamese forces to the Philippines in 1975.
Transferred to the Philippines 5 April 1976 being renamed Rajah Lakandula.
Rajah Lakundula was stricken in 1988.
Commands listed for USS Camp (DE 251)
1 Preston Baker Mavor, USCG 16 Sep 1943 22 May 1944
2 Russell Randolph Waesche, Jr., USCG 22 May 1944