High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Yokes (APD-69), ex-DE-668, was a United States Navy high-speed transport in commission from 1944 to 1946. Yokes was laid down as the Buckley-class destroyer escort USS Yokes (DE-668) on 22 August 1943 at Orange, Texas, by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Company and launched as such on 27 November 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Charlotte Yokes, widow of the ship's namesake, Seaman Second Class William J. Yokes. Yokes was reclassified as a Charles Lawrence-class high-speed transport and redesignated APD-69 on 27 June 1944. After conversion to her new role, she was commissioned on 18 December 1944 with Lieutenant Commander Paul E. Warfield, USNR, in command.

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