USS Maloy
Service
- as USS Maloy13 December 1943 — 28 May 1965629 days of the war
- Name
- USS Maloy
- Namesake
- Thomas Joel Maloy
- Builder
- Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
- Laid down
- 10 May 1943
- Launched
- 18 August 1943
- Commissioned
- 13 December 1943
- Decommissioned
- 28 May 1965
- Struck
- 1 June 1965
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping, 11 March 1966 (1966)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,400 long tons (1,422 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,673 long tons (1,700 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 11.28 m (37 ft)
- Draught
- 3.96 m (13 ft)
- Speed
- 24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
- Complement
- 186
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Maloy was a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy. The ship was named after Thomas Joel Maloy. Her keel was laid at Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas on 10 May 1943. She entered service on 13 December 1943, having been launched on 18 August 1943.
Her class ran to 98 ships. The class followed the Evarts-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Cannon-class destroyer escort.
She displaced 1,400 long tons standard and 1,673 long tons at full load. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 11.3 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 24 knots, and she carried a complement of 186. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 629 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 28 May 1965. She was struck from the register on 1 June 1965.
She was broken up for scrap on 11 March 1966.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Turbo-electric drive, 12000 shp
- 2 shafts
- Armament
- 3 × 3"/50 caliber guns
- 1 × quad 1.1"/75 caliber gun
- 8 × single 20 mm guns
- 1 × triple 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 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 Maloy 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