USS Camp
Service
- 16 September 1943 — 1 May 1946717 days of the war
- as RVNS Tran Hung Dao (HQ-1)13 February 1971 — 5 April 1976
- as RPS (later BRP) Rajah Lakandula (PF-4)27 July 1976 — 1988
- Name
- USS Camp
- Namesake
- Jack Hill Camp
- Builder
- Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Texas
- Laid down
- 27 January 1943
- Launched
- 16 April 1943
- Commissioned
- 16 September 1943
- Decommissioned
- 1 May 1946
- Struck
- 30 December 1975
- Fate
- Escaped to the Philippines and transferred to the Philippine Navy, 5 April 1976 (1976)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,253 long tons (1,273 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,590 long tons (1,616 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Draught
- 3.05 m (10 ft)
- Speed
- 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
- Range
- 9,000 nmi (16,668 km)
- Complement
- 209
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Camp was a Edsall-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy. The ship was named after Jack Hill Camp. Her keel was laid at Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Texas on 27 January 1943. She entered service on 16 September 1943, having been launched on 16 April 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.
Displacement was 1,253 long tons standard and 1,590 long tons at full load. 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 served with the United States Navy until 1 May 1946. She was in commission for 717 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 1 May 1946. She was struck from the register on 30 December 1975.
She was transferred on 5 April 1976.
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
- 6000 shp
- 2 screws
- Armament
- 3 × single 3 in (76 mm)/50 guns
- 1 × twin 40 mm AA guns
- 8 × single 20 mm AA guns
- 1 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 8 × depth charge projectors
- 1 × depth charge projector (hedgehog)
- 2 × depth charge tracks
Sister ships
- USS Blair
- USS Brister
- USS Brough
- USS Calcaterra
- 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 Camp on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Navy photo NH 91559 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons