Hull Number: DE-363
Launch Date: 06/01/1944
Commissioned Date: 09/18/1944
Decommissioned Date: 05/14/1946
Call Sign: NKHO
Class: JOHN C. BUTLER
JOHN C. BUTLER Class
Namesake: MALCOLM LEWIS PRATT
MALCOLM LEWIS PRATT
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, March 2021
Malcolm Lewis Pratt, born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, on 5 August 1891, became assistant surgeon with rank of lieutenant (junior grade), USNRF, on 27 March 1917. He received the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism in reestablishing an advanced aid station just demolished by shell-fire in Lucy le Bocage on 11 June 1918, and in continuing to dress and evacuate the wounded under direct and continuous shell-fire at Thiancourt on 13 September. He resigned from the Navy on 13 October 1919.
On 2 May 1941, Pratt reported for active duty again with the rank of lieutenant commander, Medical Corps, USNR, and was attached to the First Marine Division. He accompanied the division to Guadalcanal, where he was reported missing in action as of 13 August 1942, when he failed to return from a patrol near the village of Mantanikau led by Lt.Col. Frank B. Goettge, USMC.
Disposition:
Stricken 15 March 1972. Ultimately, she was sold on 15 January 1973 and broken up for scrap.