USS Savage
Service
- as USS Savage29 October 1943 — 17 October 1969675 days of the war
- Name
- USS Savage
- Namesake
- Walter Samuel Savage Jr.
- Builder
- Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Texas
- Laid down
- 30 April 1943
- Launched
- 15 July 1943
- Commissioned
- 29 October 1943
- Decommissioned
- 17 October 1969
- Struck
- 1 June 1975
- Fate
- Sunk as target off California on 25 October 1982 (1982)
- Status
- Wreck
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
- 11.13 m (36.5 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 Savage was a Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy. The ship was named after Walter Samuel Savage Jr. Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Texas laid her keel on 30 April 1943. Launched on 15 July 1943, she entered service on 29 October 1943.
Her class ran to 78 ships. 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 11.1 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 675 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 17 October 1969. She was struck from the register on 1 June 1975.
She was expended as a target on 25 October 1982. 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
- 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 Savage on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Lt. Mel Kowal, USNR — U.S. Navy sailor or employee [1] — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons