USS Edsall (DE-129) |
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Edsall class destroyer escort |
| Builders: | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Texas |
| Operators: | United States Navy United States Coast Guard Republic of Vietnam Navy Philippine Navy Tunisia Navy Vietnamese People's Navy Mexican Navy |
| Preceded by: | Cannon class destroyer escort |
| Succeeded by: | Rudderow class destroyer escort |
| Planned: | 85 |
| Completed: | 85 |
| Active: | 0 |
| Laid up: | 0 |
| Lost: | 5 |
| Retired: | 85 |
| Scrapped: | 75 |
| Preserved: | 1 |
| 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: |
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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. The class was also known as the FMR type from their Fairbanks-Morse Reduction-geared diesel drive used in the submarines of the time. This was the only World War II DE class in which all the ships originally ordered were completed as United States Navy Destroyer Escorts.[1] Destroyer escorts were regular companions escorting the vulnerable cargo ships. In late WWII plans were made to replace the 3" guns with 5" guns. But only USS Camp (DE 251) was refitted after a collision. In total all 85 were completed by three shipbuilding companies: Beth Staten Island (47), Consolidated Orange (18), and Houston (20). Many convoys were escorted by these ships and most were en route to the pacific theater when Japan surrendered. One of the ships participated in Operation Dragoon and two were attacked by guided missiles used by the Germans.
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A total of 85 Edsall class destroyer escorts were built.
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