Dealey class destroyer escort
.jpg) USS Dealey (DE-1006) |
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Operators: |  United States Navy Uruguayan Navy Colombian Navy |
| Preceded by: | John C. Butler class destroyer escort |
| Succeeded by: | Claud Jones class destroyer escort |
| Built: | 1952–1957 |
| In commission: | 1954–1994 |
| Completed: | 13 |
| Preserved: | 1 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Destroyer escort |
| Displacement: | 1,270 long tons (1,290 t) |
| Length: | 314 ft 6 in (95.86 m) |
| Beam: | 36 ft 9 in (11.20 m) |
| Draft: | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × Foster-Wheeler boilers 1 × De Laval geared turbine 20,000 shp (15 MW) 1 shaft |
| Speed: | 25 knots (29 mph; 46 km/h) |
| Complement: | 170 |
| Armament: | • 4 × 3"/50 caliber guns • 4 × 533 mm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes • 2 × ASW torpedo racks • 2 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar • 2 × DCT (K-guns) |
The Dealey class destroyer escorts were the first post-World War II escort ships built for the United States Navy.
Slightly faster and larger than the escort destroyers of the previous era, they were fitted with twin-mounted 3 inch guns, ASW rockets, a depth charge rack and 6 depth charge launchers. There were later modernizations that removed the ASW rockets and the depth charges in favor of nuclear-capable anti-submarine rocket launchers and torpedo mounts which fired lighter homing torpedoes.
They were decommissioned in 1972 and 1973 in favor of the Knox class frigate. USS Dealey (DE-1006) and USS Hartley (DE-1029) were sold at surplus to other countries in 1972, with the remainder of the class being sold for scrap.
[edit] Ships
| Name | Number | Builder | Commissioned- Decommission |
Fate |
| Dealey | DE-1006 | Bath Iron Works | 1954-1972 | Transferred to Uruguay as ROU 18 De Julio (DE-3) |
| Cromwell | DE-1014 | Bath Iron Works | 1954-1972 | Sold for scrap |
| Hammerberg | DE-1015 | Bath Iron Works | 1955-1973 | Sold for scrap |
| Courtney | DE-1021 | Defoe Shipbuilding | 1956-1973 | Sold for scrap |
| Lester | DE-1022 | Defoe Shipbuilding | 1957-1972 | Sold for scrap |
| Evans | DE-1023 | Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging | 1957-1968 | Sold for scrap |
| Bridget | DE-1024 | Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging | 1957-1968 | Sold for scrap |
| Bauer | DE-1025 | Bethlehem Steel, Alameda | 1957-1973 | Sold for scrap |
| Hooper | DE-1026 | Bethlehem Steel, Alameda | 1958-1968 | Sold for scrap |
| John Willis | DE-1027 | New York Shipbuilding | 1957-1972 | Sold for scrap |
| Van Voorhis | DE-1028 | New York Shipbuilding | 1957-1972 | Sold for scrap |
| Hartley | DE-1029 | New York Shipbuilding | 1957-1972 | Sold to Colombia as ARC Boyaca (DE-16) |
| Joseph K. Taussig | DE-1030 | New York Shipbuilding | 1957-1972 | Sold for scrap |
[edit] See also
Media related to Dealey class destroyer escorts at Wikimedia Commons
- Oslo class frigate - Norwegian ship class based on the Dealey
- Pereira da Silva class frigate - Portuguese ship class based on the Dealey
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