USS Amesbury
Service
- as USS Amesbury30 August 1943 — 3 July 1946736 days of the war
- Name
- USS Amesbury
- Builder
- Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard
- Ordered
- 1942
- Laid down
- 8 March 1943
- Launched
- 5 June 1943
- Commissioned
- 30 August 1943
- Decommissioned
- 3 July 1946
- Struck
- 1 June 1960
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 24 October 1962
Sank under tow off Key West (1962) - Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 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
- 20 mm (0.8 in)
USS Amesbury was a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid at Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard on 8 March 1943. She entered service on 30 August 1943, having been launched on 5 June 1943.
Her class ran to 98 ships. The class followed the Evarts-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Cannon-class destroyer escort.
Displacement was 1,740 long tons. 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 eight 20 mm (0.8 in) guns.
She was in commission for 736 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 3 July 1946. She was struck from the register on 1 June 1960.
She was broken up for scrap on 24 October 1962.
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-inch/50-caliber guns
- 1 × quad 1.1-inch/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 Amesbury on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy photo [1] from Hyperwar — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons