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Tonnage |
1430 tons standard displacement |
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Dimensions |
306' by 36'8" by 11'2" 93.27m by 11.28m by 3.4m |
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Maximum speed |
23 knots |
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Complement |
156 |
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Armament |
2x1 5"/38
dual-purpose guns 1x3 21" torpedo tubes 2x2 40mm Bofors AA guns 10 20mm Oerlikon AA guns Hedgehog 2 depth charge rails 8 depth charge throwers |
| Machinery |
2-shaft Westinghouse turbine
(12,000 shp) 2 boilers |
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Bunkerage |
347 tons fuel oil |
| Sensors |
QC sonar All commissioned with radar of various types |
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Range |
6000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 12 knots |
The John C. Butlers,
completed in 1943-45, were probably the best-armed and most rugged
of
the destroyer escorts, with
some
measure of machinery dispersal. They closely resembled the Rudderows
except for their use of geared turbine machinery in place of
turboelectric drive.
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| Formoe | arrived late arrived 1944 | |
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arrived 1944-5 |
Sunk by I-45 1944-10-28 off Leyte | |
| Richard M. Rowell | arrived 1944-5-14 | |
| Richard S. Bull | arrived 1944-5-14 | |
| Rombach | arrived 1944-6 | |
| Corbesier | arrived 1944-6 | |
| Dennis | arrived 1944-6 | |
| Edmonds | arrived 1944-6 | |
| O'Flaherty | arrived 1944-6 | |
| John C. Butler | arrived 1944-6-12 | |
| Jack Miller | arrived 1944-6-20 | |
| LeRay Wilson | arrived 1944-6-22 | |
| Straus | arrived 1944-6-26 | |
| Johnnie Hutchins | arrived 1944-7 | |
| Pratt | arrived 1944-7 | |
| Rolf | arrived 1944-7 | |
| Walton | arrived 1944-7 | |
| Woodson | arrived 1944-7 | |
| Shelton | arrived 1944-7-1 | Sunk by RO-41 1944-10-3 off Morotai |
| Stafford | arrived 1944-7-3 | |
| La Prade | arrived 1944-7-4 | |
| Raymond | arrived 1944-7-8 | |
| McCoy Reynolds | arrived 1944-7-16 | |
| Conklin |
arrived 1944-7-15 |
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| Richard W. Suesens | arrived 1944-7-23 | |
| Oberrender | arrived 1944-7-25 | Crippled by kamikazes 1945-5-9 off Okinawa; not repaired |
| Samuel B. Roberts | arrived 1944-7-27 | Sunk by gunfire 1944-10-25 off Samar |
| Melvin R. Nawman | arrived 1944-7-29 | |
| Lawrence Taylor | arrived 1944-8-14 | |
| Gilligan | arrived 1944-8-15 | |
| William Seiverling | arrived 1944-8-16 | |
| Tabberer | arrived 1944-8-23 | |
| Howard F. Clark | arrived 1944-8-25 | |
| Abercrombie | <arrived 1944-8-29 | |
| Oliver Mitchell | arrived 1944-9-7 | |
| Robert F. Keller | arrived 1944-9-7 | |
| Kendall C. Campbell | arrived 1944-9-9 | |
| Alvin C. Cockrell | arrived 1944-10 | |
| Ulvert M. Moore | arrived 1944-10-14 | |
| Kenneth M. Willett | arrived 1944-10-28 | |
| Lloyd E. Acree | arrived 1944-10-28 | |
| Mack | arrived 1944-10-28 | |
| Chester T. O'Brien | arrived 1944-11 | |
| Doyle C. Barnes | arrived 1944-11 | |
| Edwin A. Howard | arrived 1944-11 | |
| Haas | arrived 1944-11 | |
| McGinty | arrived 1944-11 | |
| Silverstein | arrived 1944-11-1 | |
| Goss | arrived 1944-11-7 | |
| Lewis |
arrived 1944-11-12 |
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| Jesse Rutherford | arrived 1944-11-17 | |
| Key | arrived 1944-11-17 | |
| Robert Brazier | arrived 1944-11-17 | |
| Grady | arrived 1944-11-24 | |
| Leland E. Thomas | arrived 1944-11-24 | |
| Douglas A. Munro | arrived 1944-12 | |
| Dufilho | arrived 1944-12 | |
| French | arrived 1945-3 | |
| Thaddeus Parker | arrived 1945-1-7 | |
| John L. Williamson | arrived 1945-1-10 | |
| Gentry | arrived 1945-1-20 | |
| Naifeh | arrived 1945-1-20 | |
| Maurice J. Manuel | arrived 1945-1-23 | |
| Presley | arrived 1945-1-24 | |
| Albert T. Harris | arrived 1945-2 | |
| Cecil J. Doyle | arrived 1945-2 | |
| Charles E. Brannon | arrived 1945-2 | |
| Williams | arrived 1945-2-7 | |
| Cross | arrived 1945-4 | |
| Joseph E. Connolly | arrived 1945-5-17 |
References
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