USS McGinty
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USS McGinty (DE-365) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy.
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USS McGinty (DE-365) underway off San Diego, California in 1959 | |
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United States | |
Name | McGinty |
Namesake | Franklin Alexander McGinty |
Builder | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
Laid down | 3 May 1944 |
Launched | 5 August 1944 |
Commissioned | 25 September 1944 |
Decommissioned | 15 January 1947 |
Recommissioned | 28 March 1951 |
Decommissioned | 23 September 1968 |
Stricken | 23 September 1968 |
Fate | Scrapped starting 1969 |
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 kn (44 km/h) |
Range | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h) |
Complement | 14 officers, 201 enlisted |
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