USS Ramsden
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USS Ramsden (DE-382) 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 performed other tasks with the U.S. Coast Guard and with the U.S. Navy as a radar picket ship.
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United States | |
Name | USS Ramsden (DE-382) |
Namesake | Marvin Lee Ramsden |
Builder | Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Texas |
Laid down | 26 March 1943 |
Launched | 24 May 1943 |
Commissioned | 19 October 1943 |
Decommissioned | 23 June 1960 |
Reclassified | DER-382, 1 November 1956 |
Stricken | 1 August 1974 |
Fate | Sunk as target |
United States | |
Name | USCGC Ramsden (WDE-382} |
Commissioned | 1 April 1952 |
Decommissioned | 28 June 1954 |
Fate | Returned to USN, 28 June 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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