USS Ricketts
Service
- as Ricketts5 October 1943 — 17 April 1946698 days of the war
- Name
- USS Ricketts
- Namesake
- Milton Ernest Ricketts
- Builder
- Brown Shipbuilding Houston, Texas
- Laid down
- 16 March 1943
- Launched
- 10 May 1943
- Commissioned
- 5 October 1943
- Decommissioned
- 17 April 1946
- Struck
- 1 November 1972
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping, 18 January 1974 (1974)
- Status
- Scrapped
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 Ricketts was a Edsall-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy. She was named for Milton Ernest Ricketts. Brown Shipbuilding Houston, Texas laid her keel on 16 March 1943. She entered service on 5 October 1943, having been launched on 10 May 1943.
She was one of 78 ships of her class. 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 698 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 17 April 1946. She was struck from the register on 1 November 1972.
She was broken up for scrap on 18 January 1974.
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
- 6000 shp
- 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 Ricketts on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo BS 82741 available at usndazzle.com — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons