Escort destroyer (disambiguation)

Escort destroyer (DDE) is a US Navy post World War II classification for destroyers (DD) modified for and assigned to escort fleets.

Escort destroyer may also refer to:

• Hunt class destroyer, a class of destroyers of the Royal Navy designed to escort convoys
• River class destroyer escort, a class of escort destroyers operated by the Royal Australian Navy
• V and W class destroyer, a grouping of similar classes of Royal Navy First World War destroyers used for convoy escort in the Second World War
• F class escort ship, a class of fleet escorts used by the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War

See also

• Destroyer escort, a US Navy classification for a smaller, lightly armed warship designed to be used to escort convoys of merchant marine ships
• Royal Navy#Escort units, the escort fleet, in the form of frigates and destroyers
• Destroyer escort (disambiguation)
• Ocean escort