USS Cecil J. Doyle
Service
- as Cecil J. Doyle16 October 1944 — 2 July 1946321 days of the war
- Name
- USS Cecil J. Doyle
- Namesake
- Cecil J. Doyle
- Builder
- Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
- Laid down
- 12 May 1944
- Launched
- 1 July 1944
- Commissioned
- 16 October 1944
- Decommissioned
- 2 July 1946
- Struck
- 1 July 1967
- Fate
- Sunk as target, 2 December 1967 (1967)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,350 long tons (1,372 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
- Range
- 6,000 nmi (11,112 km)
- Complement
- 215
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Cecil J. Doyle was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy. She was named for Cecil J. Doyle. Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas laid her keel on 12 May 1944. She entered service on 16 October 1944, having been launched on 1 July 1944.
Her class ran to 81 ships. The class followed the Rudderow-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Dealey-class destroyer escort.
Displacement was 1,350 long tons. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 11.0 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 24 knots, and she carried a complement of 215.
Her main battery was two 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 321 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 2 July 1946. She was struck from the register on 1 July 1967.
She was expended as a target on 2 December 1967. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 boilers, 2 geared turbine engines, 12000 shp; 2 propellers
- Armament
- 2 × single 5 in (127 mm) guns
- 2 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns
- 10 × single 20 mm (0.79 in) AA guns
- 1 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 8 × depth charge throwers
- 1 × Hedgehog ASW mortar
- 2 × depth charge racks
Sister ships
- USS Abercrombie
- USS Albert T. Harris
- USS Bivin
- USS Charles E. Brannon
- USS Chester T. O’Brien
- USS Conklin
- USS Corbesier (DE-438)
- USS Cross
- USS Dennis
- USS Douglas A. Munro
- USS Doyle C. Barnes
- USS Dufilho
- USS Edmonds
- USS Edward H. Allen
- USS Edwin A. Howard
- USS Eversole (DE-404)
- USS Formoe
- USS French
- USS Gentry
- USS George E. Davis
- USS Gilligan
- USS Goss
- USS Grady
- USS Haas
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Cecil J. Doyle on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy photo [1] from Navsource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons