Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
United States Navy — Destroyer escort

USS Cross

John C. Butler-class destroyer escort

USS Cross
U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo BS 77972 from usndazzle.com — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate The U.S. Navy destroyer escort USS Cross (DE-448) underway in the Atlantic Ocean off New York (USA) on 25 January 1945. Cross is fitted with a SU radar above the bridge and a direction finding antenna on the stack. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 33a, Design 31D. Cross was the only ship painted in Design 31D.

Service

  1. United States Navy8 January 1945 — 14 June 1946237 days of the war
John C. Butler-class destroyer escort Particulars
Name
USS Cross
Laid down
19 March 1944
Launched
4 July 1944
Commissioned
8 January 1945
Decommissioned
14 June 1946
Struck
1 July 1966
Fate
Sold for scrapping 5 March 1968 (1968)
Status
Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard
1,350 long tons (1,372 t)
Length
93.27 m (306 ft) OA
Beam
10.97 m (36 ft)
Draught
3.96 m (13 ft)
Speed
24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
Range
6,000 nmi (11,112 km)
Complement
215
Main gun
127 mm (5 in)

USS Cross was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid on 19 March 1944. She entered service on 8 January 1945, having been launched on 4 July 1944.

She was one of 81 ships of her class. The class followed the Rudderow-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Dealey-class destroyer escort.

Displacement was 1,350 long tons. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 11.0 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 24 knots, and she carried a complement of 215.

Her main battery was two 127 mm (5 in) guns.

She was in commission for 237 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 14 June 1946. She was struck from the register on 1 July 1966.

She was broken up for scrap on 5 March 1968.

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, 2 geared steam turbines, 12,000 shp, 2 screws
Armament
  • 2 × 5 in
  • 4 × 40 mm AA (2 × 2)
  • 10 × 20 mm guns AA
  • 3 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
  • 1 × Hedgehog
  • 8 × depth charge projectors
  • 2 × depth charge tracks

Sister ships

56 more in the class

Sources

  • Facts harvested from USS Cross on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo BS 77972 from usndazzle.com — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons