USS Chambers
Service
- as Chambers22 November 1943 — 30 July 1954650 days of the war
- Name
- USS Chambers
- Namesake
- Russell Franklyn Chambers
- Builder
- Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Texas
- Laid down
- 28 May 1943
- Launched
- 17 August 1943
- Commissioned
- 22 November 1943
- Decommissioned
- 20 June 1960
- Struck
- 1 March 1975
- Fate
- Returned to USN, 30 July 1954 (1954)
- 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
- 11.15 m (36.6 ft)
- Draught
- 3.18 m (10.4 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 Chambers was a Edsall-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy. The ship was named after Russell Franklyn Chambers. Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Texas laid her keel on 28 May 1943. Launched on 17 August 1943, she entered service on 22 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.
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 11.2 m (37 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 650 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 20 June 1960. She was struck from the register on 1 March 1975.
She was transferred on 30 July 1954.
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 × 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 Camp
- 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 Chambers on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Coast Guard photo [1] from Navsource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons