USS Lowe
US naval vessel (1943–1968) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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USS Lowe (DE-325) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946 and from 1955 to 1968. Between 1951 and 1954 she was loaned to the U.S. Coast Guard as USCGC Lowe (WDE-425). She was scrapped in 1969.
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Namesake | Harry James Lowe |
Builder | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
Laid down | 24 May 1943 |
Launched | 28 July 1943 |
Commissioned | 22 November 1943 |
Decommissioned | 20 September 1968 |
Reclassified | DER-325, 28 October 1954 |
Stricken | 23 September 1968 |
Fate | Sold for scrapping 3 September 1969 |
General characteristics | |
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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