Hull Number: DE-71
Launch Date: 06/30/1943
Class: BUCKLEY
BUCKLEY Class
Namesake: HARVEY EMERSON OSWALD
HARVEY EMERSON OSWALD
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, April 2016
Harvey Emerson Oswald, born in Columbus, Ohio, 11 September 1918, enlisted in the Naval Reserve in April 1938. Discharged from the reserve at his own request 3 August 1939, he enlisted in the U. S. Navy the same day. Assigned the following December to William B. Preston, he was killed when that ship came under Japanese aerial attack at Darwin, Australia, 19 February 1942. For his prompt and courageous manning of a .50 caliber PBY airplane machine gun, he was posthumously awarded the Silver Star.
Disposition:
Transferred to the Royal Navy 29 September 1943, DE-71 served the British war effort as Affleck (K-462). At the end of World War II she was returned to the US Navy in Britain, where she was sold on 24 January 1947 and into 1970 serves as the Mercantile hulk Nostra Senora de la Luz.