USS Witter
Service
- as USS Witter19 December 1943 — 29 October 1945623 days of the war
- Name
- USS Witter
- Namesake
- Jean C. Witter
- Builder
- Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California
- Ordered
- 1942
- Laid down
- 28 April 1943
- Launched
- 17 October 1943
- Commissioned
- 19 December 1943
- Decommissioned
- 29 October 1945
- Struck
- 16 November 1945
- Fate
- Sold and broken up, 2 December 1946 (1946)
- 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 Witter was a Buckley-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy. She was named for Jean C. Witter. Her keel was laid at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California on 28 April 1943. She entered service on 19 December 1943, having been launched on 17 October 1943.
Her class ran to 98 ships. The class followed the Evarts-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Cannon-class destroyer escort.
She displaced 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 623 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 29 October 1945. She was struck from the register on 16 November 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 2 December 1946.
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 Witter on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo 19-N-62175 from Navsource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons