USS Abercrombie
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USS Abercrombie (DE-343) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort in the service of the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. She was finally sunk as a target in 1968.
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Name | Abercrombie |
Namesake | William Abercrombie |
Builder | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
Laid down | 8 November 1943 |
Launched | 14 January 1944 |
Commissioned | 1 May 1944 |
Decommissioned | 15 June 1946 |
Stricken | 1 May 1967 |
Identification | DE-343 |
Fate | Sunk as target 7 January 1968 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | John C. Butler-class destroyer escort |
Displacement | 1,350 long tons (1,372 t) |
Length | 306 ft (93 m) |
Beam | 36 ft 8 in (11.18 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 5 in (2.87 m) |
Propulsion | 2 boilers, 2 geared turbine engines, 12,000 shp (8,900 kW); 2 propellers |
Speed | 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph) |
Range | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 222 |
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