USS Dennis
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For the U.S. Navy patrol vessel of 1917–1919, see USS E. Benson Dennis (SP-791).
USS Dennis (DE-405) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort in the service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. She was scrapped in 1973.
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Name | USS Dennis |
Namesake | Otis Lee Dennis |
Builder | Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Texas |
Laid down | 15 September 1943 |
Launched | 4 December 1943 |
Commissioned | 20 March 1944 |
Decommissioned | 31 May 1946 |
Stricken | 1 December 1972 |
Fate | Sold for scrapping, 12 September 1973 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | John C. Butler-class destroyer escort |
Displacement | 1,350 long tons (1,370 t) |
Length | 306 ft (93 m) |
Beam | 36 ft 8 in (11.18 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 5 in (2.87 m) |
Installed power | 12,000 shp (8,900 kW) |
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Speed | 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph) |
Range | 6,000 nmi (6,900 mi; 11,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 14 officers, 201 enlisted |
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