Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
United States Navy — Destroyer escort

USS Vance

Edsall-class destroyer escort

USS Vance
Unknown author — U.S. Navy photo [1] in: John Darrell Sherwood, War in the Shallows. U.S. Navy Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam, 1965–1968 . U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington D.C. (USA), 2015. ISBN 978-0-945274-76-6 . p. 81 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate The U.S. Navy radar picket destroyer escort USS Vance (DER-387) underway at sea on 26 November 1967. In late 1967, the ship began its final Western Pacific deployment in which it was mostly employed in "Operation Market Time" off the coast of South Vietnam. She subsequently returned to the West Coast of the United States late in 1968 for inactivation.

Service

  1. United States Navy as USS Vance (DE-387)1 November 1943 — 16 June 1954671 days of the war
Edsall-class destroyer escort Particulars
Name
USS Vance
Namesake
Joseph Williams Vance, Jr.
Builder
Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Texas
Laid down
30 April 1943
Launched
16 July 1943
Commissioned
1 November 1943
Decommissioned
10 October 1969
Struck
1 June 1975
Fate
Returned to USN, 16 June 1954 (1954)
Status
Unknown

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 Vance was a Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy. She was named for Joseph Williams Vance. Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Texas laid her keel on 30 April 1943. Launched on 16 July 1943, she entered service on 1 November 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 671 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 10 October 1969. She was struck from the register on 1 June 1975.

She was transferred on 16 June 1954.

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
  • 6,000 shp (4.5 MW)
  • 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

53 more in the class

Sources

  • Facts harvested from USS Vance on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Navy photo [1] in: John Darrell Sherwood, War in the Shallows. U.S. Navy Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam, 1965–1968 . U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington D.C. (USA), 2015. ISBN 978-0-945274-76-6 . p. 81 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons