Hull Number: DE-108
Launch Date: 12/17/1943
Commissioned Date: 02/10/1944
Class: CANNON
CANNON Class
Namesake: WALTER SELWYN CROSLEY
WALTER SELWYN CROSLEY
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, April 2016
Walter Selywn Crosley, born 30 October 1871 in East Jeffrey, N.H., graduated from the Naval Academy 2 June 1893. During the Spanish-American War he distinguished himself by taking Leyden into the Bay of Nipe through a narrow channel which was supposedly mined. Under musket fire from shore, he discovered the Spanish gunboat Don Juan and engaged in a heated action until the remainder of the squadron came up and sank the enemy ship. He served as assistant naval attache in Russia and received the Navy Cross for conducting a party of Americans out of Russia under difficult and trying conditions in April 1917. He served as Navy hydrographer, commanded organizations in the operating forces and naval districts, and was a member of the Navy General Board. Rear Admiral Crosley retired 1 November 1935, and died 6 January 1939 at Baltimore, Md.
Disposition:
Crosley (DE-108) was transferred to France under lend lease 11 February 1944 and renamed Tunisien. She was transferred permanently to France under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program 21 April 1952. Tunisien participated in the Algerian War in 1956.[3] She was decommissioned and returned to the U.S. Navy in 1964 and scrapped.