CLASS: Buckley TYPE: TE (turbine-electric drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1,400 tons (std) 1,740 tons (full)
Dimensions: 306' (oa), 300' (wl) x 36' 9" x 13' 6" (max)
Armament:
3 x 3"/50 Mk22 (1x3),
1 x 1.1"/75 Mk2 quad AA (4x1),
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
Machinery: 2 "D" Express boilers, G.E. turbines with electric drive, 12000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 knots
Range: 4,940 nm @ 12 knots
Crew: 15 / 198
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bethlehem Steel Co., San Francisco CA on 21 March 1943
Launched 5 September 1943,
Commissioned 19 November 1943
Decommissioned 27 November 1946,
Recommissioned 1 September 1950 June-July 1957 Starred in the 20th Century-Fox movie "The Enemy Below"
Assigned to NRT, 13th Naval District at Seattle WA September 1957
Decommissioned 6 December 1958, placed "in service" as a unit of the Select Reserve ASW Force
Recommissioned 2 October 1961 for the Berlin Crisis,
Decommissioned and placed "in service" 1 August 1962
Out Of Service 12 July 1969, Stricken 12 July 1969.
Fate: Sunk as target 28 April 1971 by USS Trigger (SS-564)
