United States Navy — Destroyer escort class
Buckley-class destroyer escort
Buckley class
The class in numbers
- 154 Planned
- 154 Completed
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer escort
- Navies
- United States Navy 73
Royal Navy 23 - Preceded by
- Evarts-class destroyer escort
- Succeeded by
- Cannon-class destroyer escort
- Operators
- World War II, Post-War, Republic of China, Colombia, Mexico, Philippines
- Builders
- Bethlehem Steel
- Hingham Shipyard, MA
- Fore River Shipyard, MA
- San Francisco Shipyard, CA
- Charleston Navy Yard, SC
- Consolidated Steel, TX
- Defoe Shipbuilding, MI
- Dravo Corporation, PA
- Norfolk Navy Yard, VA
- Philadelphia Navy Yard, PA
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, full load
- 1,740 long tons (1,768 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Speed
- 24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
- Armament
- Main guns: 3 × 3 inch /50 Mk 22 dual-purpose open mount
- Anti-aircraft guns:
- 4 × 1.1 inch/75 (28mm) guns or 2 × 40 mm Bofors guns (not included on Captain-class ships)
- 8 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon Some of the ships had an extra one or two Oerlikons fitted on top of the superstructure amidships
- Captain-Class units had additional 20 mm guns
- Torpedo tubes: 3 21 in torpedo tubes in a triple mount
- Hedgehog mortar
- Up to 200 depth charges
Roster
Holding 98 of the 154 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Bentinck (K314) | K314 | 1943 | Scrapped 1946 |
| HMS Bligh | DE-76 | 1943 | Transferred 1945 |
| HMS Byron | 1943 | Scrapped 1947 | |
| HMS Calder (K349) | K349 | 1943 | Scrapped 1948 |
| HMS Conn | K509 | 1943 | Scrapped 1948 |
| HMS Cosby | 1943 | Scrapped 1946 | |
| HMS Dakins | K550 | 1943 | Scrapped 1944 |
| HMS Duff (K352) | K352 | 1943 | Sunk 1944 |
| HMS Ekins | K552 | 1943 | Sunk 1945 |
| HMS Fitzroy (K553) | K553 | 1943 | Transferred 1946 |
| HMS Halsted (K556) | K556 | 1943 | Sunk 1944 |
| HMS Hargood (K582) | K582 | 1944 | Transferred 1946 |
| HMS Holmes (K581) | K581 | 1944 | Transferred 1945 |
| HMS Hotham (K583) | K583 | 1944 | Transferred 1956 |
| HMS Redmill (K554) | K554 | 1943 | Sunk 1945 |
| HMS Retalick | 1943 | Transferred 1945 | |
| HMS Riou | 1943 | Transferred 1946 | |
| HMS Rowley | K560 | 1943 | Transferred 1945 |
| HMS Rupert (K561) | K561 | 1943 | Transferred 1946 |
| HMS Rutherford | K558 | 1943 | Transferred 1945 |
| HMS Seymour (K563) | K563 | 1943 | Transferred 1946 |
| HMS Spragge (K572) | K572 | 1944 | Transferred 1946 |
| HMS Stockham | 1943 | Transferred 1946 | |
| HMS Thornborough | 1943 | Transferred 1947 | |
| HMS Waldegrave (K579) | K579 | 1944 | Transferred 1945 |
| HMS Whitaker (K580) | K580 | 1944 | Sunk 1944 |
| USS Ahrens | 1944 | Scrapped 1967 | |
| USS Amesbury | 1943 | Scrapped 1962 | |
| USS Barber | 1943 | ||
| USS Barr | 1944 | Target 1963 | |
| USS Bates | 1943 | Sunk 1945 | |
| USS Blessman | 1943 | Scrapped | |
| USS Buckley | 1943 | Scrapped 1969 | |
| USS Bull (DE-693) | DE-693 | 1943 | Scrapped |
| USS Bunch | 1943 | Scrapped 1965 | |
| USS Burke | 1943 | Scrapped 1974 | |
| USS Charles Lawrence | 1943 | Scrapped 1965 | |
| USS Chase (DE-158) | DE-158 | 1943 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Cofer | 1944 | Scrapped 1968 | |
| USS Coolbaugh | 1943 | Scrapped 1973 | |
| USS Daniel T. Griffin | 1943 | Scrapped 1995 | |
| USS Darby | 1943 | Target 1970 | |
| USS Donnell | 1943 | Scrapped 1946 | |
| USS Eichenberger | 1943 | Scrapped 1973 | |
| USS England (DE-635) | DE-635 | 1943 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Enright | 1943 | Scrapped 1989 | |
| USS Fechteler (DE-157) | DE-157 | 1943 | Sunk 1944 |
| USS Fieberling | 1944 | Scrapped 1972 | |
| USS Fogg | 1943 | Scrapped 1966 | |
| USS Foreman | 1943 | Scrapped 1966 | |
| USS Foss | 1943 | Target 1966 | |
| USS Fowler | 1944 | Scrapped 1966 | |
| USS Francis M. Robinson | 1944 | Scrapped 1973 | |
| USS Frybarger | 1944 | Scrapped 1973 | |
| USS Gantner | 1943 | Scrapped 1992 | |
| USS Gendreau | 1944 | Scrapped 1973 | |
| USS George (DE-697) | DE-697 | 1943 | Scrapped 1970 |
| USS George W. Ingram | 1943 | Scrapped 1979 | |
| USS Haines | 1943 | Scrapped 1961 | |
| USS Hayter | 1944 | Scrapped 1986 | |
| USS Hopping | 1943 | Scrapped 1966 | |
| USS Hubbard | 1944 | Scrapped 1966 | |
| USS Ira Jeffery | 1943 | Target 1962 | |
| USS J. Douglas Blackwood | 1943 | Target 1970 | |
| USS James E. Craig | 1943 | Target 1969 | |
| USS Jordan | 1943 | Scrapped 1947 | |
| USS Joseph E. Campbell | 1943 | Scrapped | |
| USS Kephart | 1944 | Transferred 1967 | |
| USS Laning | 1943 | Scrapped 1975 | |
| USS Lee Fox | 1943 | Scrapped 1966 | |
| USS Liddle (DE-206) | DE-206 | 1943 | Scrapped 1967 |
| USS Lloyd | 1944 | Scrapped 1968 | |
| USS Lovelace | 1943 | Target 1968 | |
| USS Loy | 1943 | Scrapped 1966 | |
| USS Major | 1944 | Scrapped 1973 | |
| USS Maloy | 1943 | Scrapped 1966 | |
| USS Marsh | 1944 | Scrapped 1974 | |
| USS Neuendorf | 1943 | Target 1967 | |
| USS Newman | 1943 | Scrapped 1966 | |
| USS Osmus | 1944 | Scrapped 1973 | |
| USS Otter | 1944 | Target 1970 | |
| USS Raby | 1943 | Scrapped 1969 | |
| USS Reeves (DE-156) | DE-156 | 1943 | Transferred 1960 |
| USS Reuben James (DE-153) | DE-153 | 1943 | Target 1968 |
| USS Rich (DE-695) | DE-695 | 1943 | Sunk 1944 |
| USS Robert I. Paine | 1944 | Scrapped 1969 | |
| USS Schmitt | 1943 | Scrapped 1976 | |
| USS Sims (DE-154) | DE-154 | 1943 | Scrapped 1961 |
| USS Solar | 1944 | Scuttled 1946 | |
| USS Spangenberg | 1944 | Scrapped 1966 | |
| USS Spangler | 1943 | Scrapped 1972 | |
| USS Vammen | 1944 | Target 1971 | |
| USS Weeden | 1944 | Scrapped 1969 | |
| USS Whitehurst | 1943 | Target 1971 | |
| USS William C. Cole | 1944 | Scrapped 1972 | |
| USS William T. Powell | 1944 | Scrapped 1966 | |
| USS Willmarth | 1944 | Scrapped 1968 | |
| USS Witter | 1943 | Scrapped 1946 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Buckley-class destroyer escort on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.