USS Levy (DE-162)
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| Career (United States) |  |
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| Name: | USS Levy (DE-162) |
| Ordered: | Unknown |
| Builder: | Unknown |
| Commissioned: | May, 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 1945 |
| Struck: | July 1974 |
| Fate: | Scraapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,240 tons (std) 1,620 tons (full) |
| Length: | 306 ft (93 m) overall, 306 ft (93 m) waterline |
| Beam: | 36 ft 10 in (11.2 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft 8 in (3.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6000 shp, 2 screws |
| Speed: | 21 knots |
| Range: | 10,800 nm @ 12 knots |
| Complement: | 15 / 201 |
| Armament: | 3 x 3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1 twin 40mm Mk1 AA, 8 x 20mm Mk 4 AA, 3 x 21" Mk15 TT (3x1), 1 Hedgehog Projector Mk10 (144 rounds), 8 Mk6 depth charge projectors, 2 Mk9 depth charge tracks |
The USS Levy (DE-162) was a 1240-ton Cannon-class destroyer escort, built at Newark, New Jersey. Commissioned in May 1943, she served in the southern and central Pacific from August 1943 through the end of World War II. Though mainly employed escorting fleet logistics ships, late in the war, Levy was assigned to bombard and blockade bypassed Japanese islands in the Marshalls.
In August and September 1945, she hosted surrender ceremonies for Mili Atoll, Jaluit Atoll and Wake Island. Placed in the Reserve Fleet at Green Cove Springs, Florida, in November 1945, Levy had no further active service. She was later moved to the Norfolk, Virginia, area, but remained in mothballs until sold in July 1974.
USS Levy was named in honor of Commodore Uriah P. Levy (1792-1862), a notable figure of the nineteenth-century Navy.
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