USS Brister
Service
- as USS Brister30 November 1943 — 23 September 1968644 days of the war
- Name
- USS Brister
- Namesake
- Robert Earl Brister (missing in action)
- Builder
- Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
- Ordered
- 1942
- Laid down
- 14 June 1943
- Launched
- 24 August 1943
- Commissioned
- 30 November 1943
- Struck
- 23 September 1968
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping to Chi Shun Hua Steel Co., Kaohsiung, Taiwan 3 November 1971 (1971)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,590 long tons (1,616 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 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 Brister was a Edsall-class destroyer escort, operated by the United States Navy. She was named for Robert Earl Brister. Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas laid her keel on 14 June 1943. Launched on 24 August 1943, she entered service on 30 November 1943.
78 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Cannon-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Rudderow-class destroyer escort.
She displaced 1,590 long tons. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 11.0 m (36 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 644 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 23 September 1968.
She was broken up for scrap on 3 November 1971.
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 × 3 in guns (3×1)
- 2 × 40 mm guns (1×2)
- 8 × 20 mm cannon (8×1)
- 3 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 1 × hedgehog projector
- 8 × K-gun depth charge projectors
- 2 × depth charge tracks
Sister ships
- USS Blair
- USS Brough
- USS Calcaterra
- USS Camp
- USS Chambers
- USS Chatelain
- USS Cockrill
- USS Dale W. Peterson
- USS Daniel
- USS Douglas L. Howard
- USS Falgout
- USS Farquhar (DE-139)
- USS Fessenden
- USS Fiske (DE-143)
- USS Flaherty
- USS Forster
- USS Frederick C. Davis
- USS Frost
- USS Hammann (DE-131)
- USS Harveson
- USS Haverfield
- USS Herbert C. Jones
- USS Hill
- USS Holder (DE-401)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Brister on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy photo [1] from Navsource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons