United States Navy — Destroyer escort class
Crosley-class high speed transport
Crosley class
The class in numbers
- 53 Planned
- 51 Completed
- 2 Cancelled
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer escort
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Preceded by
- Charles Lawrence-class high speed transport
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Speed
- 23.5 knots (43.5 km/h, 27 mph)
- Complement
- 204
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- 1 × 5"/38 caliber gun
- 6 × 40mm Bofors AA (3 × 2)
- 6 × 20mm Oerlikon AA (6 × 1)
Roster
Holding 9 of the 51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Bray | 1944 | Target 1963 | |
| USS Donald W. Wolf | 1945 | Scrapped | |
| USS Kinzer | 1944 | Transferred 1965 | |
| USS Kline | 1944 | Target 2000 | |
| USS Raymon W. Herndon | DE-688 | 1944 | Scrapped |
| USS Register (APD-92) | APD-92 | 1945 | Transferred 1966 |
| USS Ruchamkin | DE-228 | 1945 | Transferred 1969 |
| USS Tollberg | DT-03 | 1945 | Scrapped 1973 |
| USS Truxtun (APD-98) | APD-98 | 1945 | Scrapped |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Crosley-class high speed transport on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.