USS Joyce
Service
- as Joyce30 September 1943 — 17 June 1960705 days of the war
- Name
- USS Joyce
- Namesake
- Philip Michael Joyce
- Builder
- Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
- Laid down
- 8 March 1943
- Launched
- 26 May 1943
- Commissioned
- 30 September 1943
- Decommissioned
- 17 June 1960
- Struck
- 1 December 1972
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping 11 September 1973 (1973)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,253 long tons (1,273 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,590 long tons (1,616 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 11.15 m (36.6 ft)
- Draught
- 3.18 m (10.4 ft)
- Speed
- 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
- Range
- 9,100 nmi (16,853 km)
- Complement
- 209
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Joyce was a Edsall-class destroyer escort, operated by the United States Navy. She was named for Philip Michael Joyce. Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas laid her keel on 8 March 1943. She entered service on 30 September 1943, having been launched on 26 May 1943.
78 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Cannon-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Rudderow-class destroyer escort.
She displaced 1,253 long tons standard and 1,590 long tons at full load. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 11.2 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 21 knots, and she carried a complement of 209.
Her main battery was three 76 mm (3 in) guns.
She was in commission for 705 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 17 June 1960. She was struck from the register on 1 December 1972.
She was broken up for scrap on 11 September 1973.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 FM diesel engines
- 4 diesel-generators
- 6,000 shp (4.5 MW)
- 2 screws
- Armament
- 3 × single 3 in (76 mm)/50 guns
- 1 × twin 40 mm AA guns
- 8 × single 20 mm AA guns
- 1 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 8 × depth charge projectors
- 1 × depth charge projector (hedgehog)
- 2 × depth charge tracks
Sister ships
- USS Blair
- USS Brister
- USS Brough
- USS Calcaterra
- USS Camp
- USS Chambers
- USS Chatelain
- USS Cockrill
- USS Dale W. Peterson
- USS Daniel
- USS Douglas L. Howard
- USS Falgout
- USS Farquhar (DE-139)
- USS Fessenden
- USS Fiske (DE-143)
- USS Flaherty
- USS Forster
- USS Frederick C. Davis
- USS Frost
- USS Hammann (DE-131)
- USS Harveson
- USS Haverfield
- USS Herbert C. Jones
- USS Hill
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Joyce on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: (U.S. Navy photo #DER-317-8516-2-51) — https://www.navsource.net/archives/06/317.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons