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Three United States Ships (USS) have been named Whipple, all of them during the 20th Century:

  1. Torpedo boat destroyer USS Whipple DD-15, commissioned February 17, 1903 at Norfolk, Virginia. It was decommissioned July 7, 1919.
  2. Destroyer USS Whipple DD-217, commissioned April 23, 1920 at Philadelphia. In was decommissioned November 9, 1945, at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
  3. The third USS Whipple was initially designated DE-1062 (ocean escort) when its keel was laid at Seattle's Todd Shipyard, and when it was later commissioned on August 22, 1970. Then, in July 1975, its designation was changed to Frigate FF-1062. She was decommissioned on Valentine's Day, February 14, 1992 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on January 11, 1995. She was sold to Mexico on December 14, 2001 and renamed Almirante Francisco Javier Mina (F-140).
See also the USS Whipple Blog.

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