USS Moale
Service
- as Moale28 February 1944 — 2 July 1973552 days of the war
- Name
- USS Moale
- Namesake
- Edward Moale, Jr.
- Builder
- Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
- Laid down
- 5 August 1943
- Launched
- 16 January 1944
- Commissioned
- 28 February 1944
- Decommissioned
- 2 July 1973
- Struck
- 2 July 1973
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 2,200 long tons (2,235 t)
- Length
- 114.6 m (376 ft)
- Beam
- 12.19 m (40 ft)
- Draught
- 4.57 m (15 ft)
- Speed
- 34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
- Range
- 6,500 nmi (12,038 km)
- Complement
- 336
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
USS Moale was a Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer of the United States Navy. The ship was named after Edward Moale. Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company laid her keel on 5 August 1943. Launched on 16 January 1944, she entered service on 28 February 1944.
Her class ran to 54 ships. The class followed the Fletcher-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Gearing-class destroyer.
Displacement was 2,200 long tons. She measured 114.6 m (376 ft) long with a beam of 12.2 m (40 ft). Her designed speed was 34 knots, and she carried a complement of 336.
Her main battery was twelve 40 mm (1.6 in) guns.
She was in commission for 552 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 2 July 1973. She was struck from the register on 2 July 1973.
She was broken up for scrap.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 60000 shp
- 2 propellers
- Armament
- 6 × 5-inch 38 caliber guns
- 12 × 40 mm AA guns
- 11 × 20 mm AA guns
- 10 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 6 × depth charge projectors
- 2 × depth charge tracks
Sister ships
- USS Alfred A. Cunningham
- USS Allen M. Sumner
- USS Ault
- USS Barton (DD-722)
- USS Blue (DD-744)
- USS Borie (DD-704)
- USS Bristol (DD-857)
- USS Brush
- USS Charles S. Sperry
- USS Collett
- USS Compton
- USS Cooper
- USS De Haven (DD-727)
- USS Douglas H. Fox
- USS Drexler
- USS English
- USS Frank E. Evans
- USS Gainard
- USS Hank
- USS Harlan R. Dickson
- USS Harry E. Hubbard
- USS Haynsworth
- USS Hugh Purvis
- USS Hugh W. Hadley
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Moale on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — Official U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo 19-N-62453 available at Destroyerhistory.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons