USS James E. Craig
Service
- as USS James E. Craig11 November 1943 — 2 July 1946661 days of the war
- Name
- USS James E. Craig
- Namesake
- James Edwin Craig
- Builder
- Charleston Navy Yard
- Ordered
- 1942
- Laid down
- 15 April 1943
- Launched
- 22 July 1943
- Commissioned
- 11 November 1943
- Decommissioned
- 2 July 1946
- Struck
- 30 June 1968
- Fate
- Sunk as target off California, February 1969 (1969)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,740 long tons (1,768 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 11.28 m (37 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 23 knots (42.6 km/h, 26.5 mph)
- Range
- 3,700 nmi (6,852 km)
- Complement
- 213
- Main gun
- 20 mm (0.8 in)
USS James E. Craig was a Buckley-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy. She was named for James Edwin Craig. Charleston Navy Yard laid her keel on 15 April 1943. She entered service on 11 November 1943, having been launched on 22 July 1943.
Her class ran to 98 ships. The class followed the Evarts-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Cannon-class destroyer escort.
Displacement was 1,740 long tons. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 11.3 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 23 knots, and she carried a complement of 213.
Her main battery was eight 20 mm (0.8 in) guns.
She was in commission for 661 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 2 July 1946. She was struck from the register on 30 June 1968.
She was expended as a target in February 1969. 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
- General Electric turbo-electric drive
- 12000 shp
- 2 × solid manganese-bronze 3600 lb 3-bladed propellers, 8 ft diameter, 7 ft pitch
- 2 × rudders
- 359 tons fuel oil
- Armament
- 3 × 3-inch/50-caliber guns
- 1 × quad 1.1-inch/75-caliber gun
- 8 × single 20 mm guns
- 1 × triple 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
- 8 × K-gun depth charge projectors
- 2 × depth charge tracks
Sister ships
- HMS Bentinck (K314)
- HMS Bligh
- HMS Byron
- HMS Calder (K349)
- HMS Conn
- HMS Cosby
- HMS Dakins
- HMS Duff (K352)
- HMS Ekins
- HMS Fitzroy (K553)
- HMS Halsted (K556)
- HMS Hargood (K582)
- HMS Holmes (K581)
- HMS Hotham (K583)
- HMS Redmill (K554)
- HMS Retalick
- HMS Riou
- HMS Rowley
- HMS Rupert (K561)
- HMS Rutherford
- HMS Seymour (K563)
- HMS Spragge (K572)
- HMS Stockham
- HMS Thornborough
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS James E. Craig on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Navy photo NH 81345 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons