USS Bunch
Service
- as Bunch21 August 1943 — 31 May 1946743 days of the war
- Name
- USS Bunch
- Namesake
- Kenneth Cecil Bunch
- Builder
- Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan
- Ordered
- 9 October 1942
- Laid down
- 23 February 1943
- Launched
- 29 May 1943
- Commissioned
- 21 August 1943
- Decommissioned
- 31 May 1946
- Struck
- 1 April 1964
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping, 11 May 1965 (1965)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,673 long tons (1,700 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 11.28 m (37 ft)
- Draught
- 3.96 m (13 ft)
- Speed
- 24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
- Complement
- 186
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Bunch was a Buckley-class destroyer escort, operated by the United States Navy. The ship was named after Kenneth Cecil Bunch. Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan laid her keel on 23 February 1943. She entered service on 21 August 1943, having been launched on 29 May 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 1,673 long tons. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 11.3 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 24 knots, and she carried a complement of 186.
Her main battery was one 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 743 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 31 May 1946. She was struck from the register on 1 April 1964.
She was broken up for scrap on 11 May 1965.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Turbo-electric drive, 12000 shp
- 2 shafts
- Armament
- As DE :
- 3 × 3 in/50 caliber guns
- 1 × quad 1.1 in/75 caliber gun
- 8 × single 20 mm Oerlikon cannons
- 1 × triple 21 in torpedo tubes
- 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
- 8 × K-gun depth charge projectors
- 2 × depth charge tracks
- As APD :
- 1 × 5 in/38 caliber gun
- 3 × twin 40 mm Bofors guns
- 6 × single 20 mm Oerlikon cannons
- 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 Bunch on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo 19-N-91200 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons