USS Creamer (DE-308)
.jpg) USS Creamer just after launching at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, on 23 February 1944 | |
| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Creamer |
| Namesake: |
As USS Register: Lieutenant Commander Paul J. Register (1899-1941), a U.S. Navy officer killed in action during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor As USS Creamer: Ensign William W. Creamer (1916-1942), U.S. Navy officer and Navy Cross recipient |
| Builder: | Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California |
| Laid down: | 5 July 1943 |
| Launched: | 23 February 1944 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. D. E. Creamer |
| Completed: | Never |
| Commissioned: | Never |
| Renamed: | USS Creamer 10 September 1943 (originally was USS Register) |
| Fate: | Construction cancelled, 5 September 1944; scrapped incomplete 1945 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Evarts-class destroyer escort |
| Displacement: | 1,140 long tons (1,158 t) standard 1,430 long tons (1,453 t) full |
| Length: | 289 ft 5 in (88.21 m) o/a 283 ft 6 in (86.41 m) w/l |
| Beam: | 35 ft 2 in (10.72 m) |
| Draft: | 11 ft (3.4 m) (max) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Motors Model 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6,000 shp (4,474 kW) 2 screws |
| Speed: | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Range: | 4,150 nmi (7,690 km) |
| Complement: | 15 officers / 183 enlisted |
| Armament: | • 3 × single 3"/50 Mk.22 dual purpose guns • 1 × quad 1.1"/75 Mk.2 AA gun • 9 × 20 mm Mk.4 AA guns • 1 × Hedgehog Projector Mk.10 (144 rounds) • 8 × Mk.6 depth charge projectors • 2 × Mk.9 depth charge tracks |
USS Creamer (DE-308), ex-USS Register (DE-308), was a United States Navy Evarts-class destroyer escort launched during World War II, but never completed.
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Creamer was laid down at Mare Island Navy Yard at Vallejo, California, on 5 July 1943 as USS Register (DE-308). While under construction, she was renamed USS Creamer (DE-308) on 10 September 1943, and the name Register was reassigned to the destroyer escort USS Register (DE-233). Creamer was launched on 23 February 1944, sponsored by Mrs. D. E. Creamer, mother of Ensign William W. Creamer, the ship 's namesake.
Construction of Creamer was cancelled on 5 September 1944. She was stored incomplete in the floating drydock USS ARD-21 at Mare Island from 25 September 1944 to 26 April 1945, then docked in floating drydock USS ARD-32 from 9 November 1945 to 16 November 1945, cut in two in preparation for scrapping. She was scrapped at Mare Island.
References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
(for USS Creamer)
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
(for USS Register)
- Photo gallery of USS Creamer (DE-308) at NavSource Naval History
