USS WEEDEN DE-797

The WEEDEN began 1945 in Norfolk where she served briefly as a school ship. On 28 January, the destroyer escort left Norfolk for duty with the Pacific Fleet. In late February, after   undergoing repairs at Manus in the Admiralty Islands, she got underway for Leyte. From March to September, she escorted convoys among the various islands of the Philippines and between the Philippines and American bases in other island groups. Her first escort assignment was a round‑trip voyage to Ulithi and back to Leyte. In April, she saw a convoy safely to Hollandia, New Guinea, and returned to Leyte with a formation of tugs.

Early in May, the WEEDEN made a high‑speed mail delivery on the Philippine circuit visiting Zamboanga, Mindoro; Iloilo, Manila; and Subic Bay. For the remainder of May and the entire month of June, she operated in the Philippines, either patrolling the entrance to San Pedro Bay, Leyte; escorting convoys from Leyte to Manila; or making the inter‑island mail run. In July, the WEEDEN made two round‑trip voyages escorting convoys between Leyte and Ulithi. At the conclusion of the second run, she steamed to Subic Bay where she joined the escort of a convoy bound for Okinawa. She left Subic Bay on 27 July with a large group of LSTs and LSMs and, after evading a typhoon, arrived at Okinawa on 4 August.

Three days later, the destroyer escort started back to Leyte and, soon after her arrival, the Japanese surrendered. Over the next few weeks, the WEEDEN completed escort missions in support of the occupation of former Japanese territory. Late in August, she made a round‑trip voyage to Okinawa and back to Manila. Following that, the destroyer escort screened a British escort carrier to Nagasaki, where the latter ship picked up former Allied prisoners of war for repatriation. On the return voyage, the WEEDEN herself carried 70 Dutch former prisoners as far as Okinawa and then continued on to Subic Bay for repairs.

En route, she received orders to assume plane guard duty on a station located about 100 miles north of Luzon. She performed that duty for four days and, then, resumed her voyage to the Philippines. She arrived in Subic Bay on 26 September and remained there, undergoing repairs, until 10 November. By the 26th, the WEEDEN was headed for San Pedro, California, where she was decommissioned on 9 May 1946 and was berthed with the Pacific Reserve Fleet at San Diego.

In November 1946, the WEEDEN resumed activity, though still out of commission, reporting on the 20th for duty training naval reservists in the 11th Naval District. Her status changed again on 26 May 1950 when she was placed in commission, in reserve, and in less than three months, she reported for duty with the Pacific Fleet. Her mission, naval reserve training in the 11th Naval District, remained the same. Over the next seven years, her training cruises took her north to British Columbia; south as far as Callao, Peru; and west to the Hawaiian Islands. Her center of operations, however, remained the coast of California.

Following inactivation overhaul at Portland, Oregon, she was decommissioned on 26 February 1958. The WEEDEN was berthed at Astoria, Oregon, with the Columbia River Group, Pacific Reserve Fleet until 30 June 1968, at which time her name was struck from the navy list. She was sold for scrapping to Zidell Explorations, Inc., of Portland on 27 October 1969.