USS Creamer (DE-308), ex-USS Register (DE-308), was a United States Navy

United States Navy

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  launched during World War II

World War II

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, but never completed.
Creamer was laid down at Mare Island Navy Yard at Vallejo

Vallejo, California

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, California

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, on 5 July 1943 as USS Register (DE-308). While under construction, she was renamed USS Creamer (DE-308) on 10 September 1943, and the name Register was reassigned to the destroyer escort USS Register (DE-233). Creamer was launched

Ship naming and launching

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 on 23 February 1944, sponsored by Mrs. D. E. Creamer, mother of Ensign

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 William W. Creamer

William W. Creamer

William W. Creamer was a United States Navy officer who received the Navy Cross posthumously for his actions in combat during World War II.-Naval career:William Wilson Creamer was born in York County, Pennsylvania, on December 1, 1916...

, the ship namesake.

Construction of Creamer was cancelled on 5 September 1944. She was stored incomplete in the floating drydock at Mare Island from 25 September 1944 to 26 April 1945, then docked in floating drydock from 9 November 1945 to 16 November 1945, cut in two in preparation for scrapping. She was scrapped at Mare Island.