USS Charles Lawrence
Service
- as USS Charles Lawrence31 May 1943 — 21 June 1946828 days of the war
- Name
- USS Charles Lawrence
- Builder
- Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard
- Laid down
- 1 August 1942
- Launched
- 16 February 1943
- Commissioned
- 31 May 1943
- Decommissioned
- 21 June 1946
- Struck
- 1 September 1964
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 17 November 1965 (1965)
- 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 Charles Lawrence was a Buckley-class destroyer escort, operated by the United States Navy. Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard laid her keel on 1 August 1942. She entered service on 31 May 1943, having been launched on 16 February 1943.
She was one of 98 ships of her class. 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 828 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 21 June 1946. She was struck from the register on 1 September 1964.
She was broken up for scrap on 17 November 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
- 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 Charles Lawrence on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy New York Naval Shipyard photo F644C4858 from Navsource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons