USS Koiner
Service
- as USCGC Koiner (WDE-431)27 December 1943 — 14 May 1954615 days of the war
- Name
- USS Koiner
- Namesake
- James Duval Koiner
- Builder
- Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
- Laid down
- 26 July 1943
- Launched
- 5 October 1943
- Commissioned
- 27 December 1943
- Decommissioned
- 1968
- Struck
- 23 September 1968
- Fate
- Returned to USN, 14 May 1954 (1954)
- Status
- Unknown
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 Koiner was a Edsall-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy. She was named for James Duval Koiner. Her keel was laid at Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas on 26 July 1943. Launched on 5 October 1943, she entered service on 27 December 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 615 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1968. She was struck from the register on 23 September 1968.
She was transferred on 14 May 1954.
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 Koiner on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: (U.S. Navy Photo from "Jane's Fighting Ships, 1956 - 57") — https://www.navsource.net/archives/06/331.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons