USS Naifeh
Service
- as Naifeh4 July 1944 — 17 June 1960425 days of the war
- Name
- USS Naifeh
- Namesake
- Alfred Naifeh
- Builder
- Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
- Laid down
- 29 December 1943
- Launched
- 29 February 1944
- Commissioned
- 4 July 1944
- Decommissioned
- 17 June 1960
- Struck
- 1 January 1966
- Fate
- Sunk as a target 11 July 1966 (1966)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,350 long tons (1,372 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
- Range
- 6,000 nmi (11,112 km)
- Complement
- 215
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Naifeh was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy. The ship was named after Alfred Naifeh. Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas laid her keel on 29 December 1943. She entered service on 4 July 1944, having been launched on 29 February 1944.
Her class ran to 81 ships. The class followed the Rudderow-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Dealey-class destroyer escort.
Displacement was 1,350 long tons. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 11.0 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 24 knots, and she carried a complement of 215.
Her main battery was two 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 425 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 17 June 1960. She was struck from the register on 1 January 1966.
She was expended as a target on 11 July 1966. 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, 2 geared turbine engines, 12000 shp; 2 propellers
- Armament
- 2 × single 5 in (127 mm) guns
- 2 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns
- 10 × single 20 mm (0.79 in) AA guns
- 1 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 8 × depth charge throwers
- 1 × Hedgehog ASW mortar
- 2 × depth charge racks
Sister ships
- USS Abercrombie
- USS Albert T. Harris
- USS Bivin
- USS Cecil J. Doyle
- USS Charles E. Brannon
- USS Chester T. O’Brien
- USS Conklin
- USS Corbesier (DE-438)
- USS Cross
- USS Dennis
- USS Douglas A. Munro
- USS Doyle C. Barnes
- USS Dufilho
- USS Edmonds
- USS Edward H. Allen
- USS Edwin A. Howard
- USS Eversole (DE-404)
- USS Formoe
- USS French
- USS Gentry
- USS George E. Davis
- USS Gilligan
- USS Goss
- USS Grady
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Naifeh on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy photo 80-G-245454 available at usndazzle.com — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons