USS Koiner
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USS Koiner (DE-331) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys. Post-war, she was loaned to the U.S. Coast Guard, and also reclassified as a radar picket ship.
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United States | |
Namesake | James Duval Koiner |
Builder | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
Laid down | 26 July 1943 |
Launched | 5 October 1943 |
Commissioned | 27 December 1943 |
Decommissioned | 1968 |
Reclassified | DER-331, 28 October 1954 |
Stricken | 23 September 1968 |
Fate | Sold for scrapping 3 September 1969 |
United States | |
Name | USCGC Koiner (WDE-431) |
Commissioned | 20 June 1951 |
Decommissioned | 14 May 1954 |
Fate | Returned to USN, 14 May 1954 |
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Class and type | Edsall-class destroyer escort |
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Length | 306 feet (93.27 m) |
Beam | 36.58 feet (11.15 m) |
Draft | 10.42 full load feet (3.18 m) |
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Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h) |
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Complement | 8 officers, 201 enlisted |
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