Edsall class destroyer escort
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 USS Edsall (DE-129) |
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Edsall class destroyer escort |
| Operators: |  United States Navy United States Coast Guard South Vietnam Philippines Tunisia North Vietnam Mexico |
| Preceded by: | Cannon class destroyer escort |
| Succeeded by: | Rudderow class destroyer escort |
| Completed: | 85 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Destroyer Escort |
| Displacement: | 1,253 tons standard 1,590 tons full load |
| Length: | 306 feet (93.27 m) |
| Beam: | 36.58 feet (11.15 m) |
| Draft: | 10.42 full load feet (3.18 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft Fairbanks Morse diesels, 6,000 bhp |
| Speed: | 21 knots |
| Range: | 10,800 nautical miles (20,000 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 186 |
| Armament: | 3 x 3in. guns 2 x 40 mm 8 x 20 mm 3 x 21" torpedo tubes 2 x depth charge tracks 8 x depth charge projectors 1 x hedge hog |
The Edsall class destroyer escorts were built primarily for ocean anti-submarine escort service during World War II. The lead ship, USS Edsall (DE-129) was commissioned on 10 April 1943 at Orange, Texas. Destroyer escorts were regular companions escorting the vulnerable cargo ships.
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[edit] Hull Numbers
A total of 85 Edsall class destroyer escorts were built.
- DE-129 through DE-152
- DE-238 through DE-255
- DE-316 through DE-338
- DE-382 through DE-401
[edit] Notable Ships of class
[edit] Destroyed or damaged in combat
- DE-136 USS Frederick C. Davis - sunk April 24, 1945 by U-546 in the North Atlantic
- DE-143 USS Fiske - sunk August 2, 1944 by U-804 north of the Azores
- DE-319 USS Leopold - torpedoed March 9, 1944 by U-371 south of Iceland
- DE-320 USS Menges - torpedoed April 20, 1944 by U-371 off Algiers, damaged
- DE-401 USS Holder - damaged April 11, 1944 off Algiers by German aircraft
[edit] Transferred to US Coast Guard from 1951 to 1954
- DE-322 USS Newell - redesignated WDE-422
- DE-324 USS Falgout - redesignated WDE-424
- DE-325 USS Lowe - redesignated WDE-425
- DE-328 USS Finch - redesignated WDE-428
- DE-331 USS Koiner - redesignated WDE-431
- DE-334 USS Forster - redesignated WDE-434
- DE-382 USS Ramsden - redesignated WDE-482
- DE-385 USS Richey - redesignated WDE-485
- DE-387 USS Vance - redesignated WDE-487
- DE-389 USS Durant - redesignated WDE-489
- DE-391 USS Chambers - redesignated WDE-491
[edit] Transferred to other countries
- DE-250 USS Hurst - transferred to the Mexican Navy as Comodoro Manuel Azueta Perillos (E-30)
- DE-251 USS Camp - transferred to South Vietnam as Tran Hung Dao. Later, to Philippines as Rajah Lakandula
- DE-326 USS Thomas J. Gary - transferred to Tunisia
- DE-334 USS Forster - transferred to South Vietnam as Tran Khanh Du. Later, captured by North Vietnam and used as training vessel
[edit] Other notables
- DE-144 USS Frost sank 5 German U-boats and awarded Presidential Unit Citation, 7 battle stars.
- DE-238 USS Stewart - the sole surviving example of the Edsall-class; a museum ship in Galveston, Texas.
[edit] External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
- List of Edsall Class Destroyer Escorts
- USS Fessenden DE/DER-142
- Destroyes Online - Destroyer Escorts
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