USS John C. Butler
US Navy destroyer escort (1944–1957) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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USS John C. Butler (DE-339) was the lead ship of her class of destroyer escorts in the service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. She was recommissioned between 1950 and 1957 and finally sunk as a target in 1971.
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United States | |
Name | USS John C. Butler |
Namesake | John Clarence Butler |
Builder | Consolidated Steel Corporation |
Laid down | 5 October 1943 |
Launched | 12 November 1943 |
Commissioned | 31 March 1944 |
Decommissioned | 26 June 1946 |
Recommissioned | 27 December 1950 |
Decommissioned | 18 December 1957 |
Stricken | 1 June 1970 |
Fate | Sunk as target, 1971 |
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) |
Installed power | 12,000 shp (8,900 kW) |
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Speed | 24 kn (28 mph; 44 km/h) |
Range | 6,000 nmi (6,900 mi; 11,000 km) at 12 kn (14 mph; 22 km/h) |
Complement | 186 |
Sensors and processing systems | SF multi-use radar[1] |
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