USS Osmus
Service
- as USS Osmus23 February 1944 — 15 March 1947557 days of the war
- Name
- USS Osmus
- Builder
- Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan
- Ordered
- 1942
- Laid down
- 17 August 1943
- Launched
- 4 November 1943
- Commissioned
- 23 February 1944
- Decommissioned
- 15 March 1947
- Fate
- Scrapped 1973 (1973)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,400 long tons (1,422 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,740 long tons (1,768 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 11.28 m (37 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 23 knots (42.6 km/h, 26.5 mph)
- Range
- 3,700 nmi (6,852 km)
- Complement
- 213
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Osmus was a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy. Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan laid her keel on 17 August 1943. She entered service on 23 February 1944, having been launched on 4 November 1943.
Her class ran to 98 ships. The class followed the Evarts-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Cannon-class destroyer escort.
Displacement was 1,400 long tons standard and 1,740 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 23 knots, and she carried a complement of 213. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 557 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 15 March 1947.
She was broken up for scrap in 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
- 2 × boilers
- General Electric turbo-electric drive
- 12000 shp
- 2 × solid manganese-bronze 3600 lb 3-bladed propellers, 8 ft diameter, 7 ft pitch
- 2 × rudders
- 359 tons fuel oil
- 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
- 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
- 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 Osmus on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo 19-N-65382 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons