Specifications:
Class: Rudderow
Type: TEV (turbo-electric drive, long hull, 5″ guns)
Displacement: 1,450 tons (light), 1,810 tons (full)
Length: 300′ (wl), 306′ (oa)
Beam: 36′ 9″ (extreme)
Draft: 13′ 9″ (draft limit)
Propulsion: 2 CE boilers, G.E. turbines with electric drive, 12000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 kts
Range: 5,050 nm @ 12 knots
Armament: 2 – 5″/38 Mk30, 4 – 40mm Mk1 AA (2×2), 10 x 20mm/70 Mk 4 AA, 3 x 21″ Mk15 TT (3×1), 1 Hedgehog Projector Mk10 (230 rounds), 8 Mk6 depth charge projectors (40), 2 Mk9 depth charge tracks (60)
Complement: 12 / 192
DeLong (DE 684) Building and Operational Data:19 October 1943: Keel laid by the Fore River Yard, Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, Mass.
23 November 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. L. C. (Jetta) DeLong, mother of the late Corporal W. F. DeLong, USMCR
31 December 1943: Commissioned, Lcdr R. C. Houston, USN, in command; assigned to Destroyer Escort Division 2
15 August 1945: Reclassified as APD 137, reported to Charleston Navy Yard for conversion, conversion cancelled
.. January 1946: Decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla. after 2 years of service
07 February 1951: Recommissioned
03 January 1958: Decommissioned and placed “In Service”, assigned to NRT as a unit of the Select Reserve ASW Force, 3rd Naval District at New York City, N.Y.
October 1961: Recommissioned for the Berlin Crisis, assigned to Escort Squadron 18 at Newport, R.I.
01 August 1962: Decommissioned and placed back “In Service”
08 August 1969: Placed “Out of Service”, Struck from the NVR with a total of 20 years and 6 months of service
19 February 1970: Sunk as target off Puerto Rico
Class: Rudderow
Type: TEV (turbo-electric drive, long hull, 5″ guns)
Displacement: 1,450 tons (light), 1,810 tons (full)
Length: 300′ (wl), 306′ (oa)
Beam: 36′ 9″ (extreme)
Draft: 13′ 9″ (draft limit)
Propulsion: 2 CE boilers, G.E. turbines with electric drive, 12000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 kts
Range: 5,050 nm @ 12 knots
Armament: 2 – 5″/38 Mk30, 4 – 40mm Mk1 AA (2×2), 10 x 20mm/70 Mk 4 AA, 3 x 21″ Mk15 TT (3×1), 1 Hedgehog Projector Mk10 (230 rounds), 8 Mk6 depth charge projectors (40), 2 Mk9 depth charge tracks (60)
Complement: 12 / 192
DeLong (DE 684) Building and Operational Data:
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