USS Crouter
Service
- as USS Crouter25 May 1943 — 30 November 1945831 days of the war
- Name
- USS Crouter
- Namesake
- Mark Hanna Crouter
- Builder
- Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts
- Laid down
- 8 February 1942
- Launched
- 26 January 1943
- Commissioned
- 25 May 1943
- Decommissioned
- 30 November 1945
- Struck
- 19 December 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping, 25 November 1946
Broken up, 1947 (1946) - Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,430 long tons (1,453 t)
- Length
- 88.09 m (289 ft) OA
- Speed
- 19 knots (35.2 km/h, 21.9 mph)
- Complement
- 198
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Crouter was a Evarts-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy. The ship was named after Mark Hanna Crouter. Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts laid her keel on 8 February 1942. Launched on 26 January 1943, she entered service on 25 May 1943.
67 ships of the class were built. The class followed the N/A and was succeeded by the Buckley-class destroyer escort.
She displaced 1,430 long tons. She measured 88.1 m (289 ft) long. Her designed speed was 19 knots, and she carried a complement of 198. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 831 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 30 November 1945. She was struck from the register on 19 December 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 25 November 1946.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Armament
- 3 × 3"/50 Mk.22 guns
- 1 × quad 1.1"/75 Mk.2 AA gun
- 9 × 20 mm Mk.4 AA guns
- 1 × Hedgehog Projector Mk.10 (144 rounds)
- 8 × Mk.6 depth charge projectors
- 2 × Mk.9 depth charge tracks
Sister ships
- HMS Bazely
- HMS Goodson
- HMS Inglis
- HMS Lawford (K514)
- USS Andres
- USS Austin (DE-15)
- USS Bebas
- USS Brackett
- USS Brennan
- USS Burden R. Hastings
- USS Cabana
- USS Canfield
- USS Carlson
- USS Charles R. Greer
- USS Cloues
- USS Connolly
- USS Crowley
- USS Decker
- USS Deede
- USS Dempsey (DE-26)
- USS Dionne
- USS Dobler
- USS Doherty
- USS Doneff
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Crouter on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Navy photo NH 83389 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons