USS Edgar G. Chase

History
United States
Name	USS Edgar G. Chase (DE-16)
Builder	Mare Island Navy Yard
Laid down	14 March 1942
Launched	26 September 1942 as HMS Burges (BDE-16)
Commissioned	20 March 1943 as USS Edgar G. Chase (DE-16)
Decommissioned	16 October 1945
Stricken	1 November 1945
Fate	Sold for scrap on 18 March 1947
General characteristics
Class and type	Evarts-class destroyer escort
Displacement	1,140 (standard); 1,430 tons (full);
Length	283 ft 6 in (86.4 m) (waterline); 289 ft 5 in (88.21 m) (overall));
Beam	35 ft 2 in (10.7 m)
Draft	11 ft (3.4 m) (max)
Propulsion	4 General Motors Model 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive; 6,000 shp (4,500 kW); 2 screws;
Speed	21 kn (39 km/h)
Range	4,150 nm
Complement	15 officers, 183 enlisted
Armament	3 × 3 in (76 mm) cal Mk 22 dual purpose guns (1×3) ; 4 × 1.1"/75 caliber gun (1×4); 9 × Oerlikon 20 mm Mk 4 AA cannons; 1 × Hedgehog Projector Mk 10 (144 rounds); 8 × Mk 6 depth charge projectors ; 2 × Mk 9 depth charge tracks;

USS Edgar G. Chase (DE-16) was an Evarts-class "short-hull" destroyer escort in the service of the United States Navy named after Edgar Griffith Chase, executive officer of a destroyer lost at Guadalcanal in 1942.

Edgar G. Chase was launched on 26 September 1942 by Mare Island Navy Yard, Solano County, California as HMS Burges (BDE-16); sponsored for British Lend-Lease by Mrs. Ernest H. Wichels, but retained by the USN and assigned the name Edgar G. Chase on 19 February 1943; and commissioned 20 March 1943.

Service history[edit]

World War II[edit]

Edgar G. Chase reported to the Submarine chaser Training Center at Miami, Florida, 4 June 1943, and for the next year trained student officers and patrolled off Florida. After a voyage in August 1944 from Norfolk, Virginia, to Recife, Brazil, screening Tripoli, and returning with Solomons. Edgar G. Chase sailed from New York on 19 September with a slow-moving convoy for England. With bad weather, the passage took a month; she got back to Norfolk on 22 November.

Edgar G. Chase made three voyages as convoy escort from New York and Norfolk to Oran from 19 December 1944 – 30 May 1945.

On 20 July, she returned to Miami, Florida, and her original training duty with the Small Craft Training Center.

Post-War[edit]

She arrived at Charleston, South Carolina on 9 September and was decommissioned there on 16 October 1945, being sold for scrap on 18 March 1947.

Awards[edit]

	American Campaign Medal
	European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
	World War II Victory Medal

References[edit]

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

External links[edit]

Photo gallery of Edgar G. Chase at NavSource Naval History