USS Day
Rudderow
Service
- as USS Day10 June 1944 — 16 May 1946449 days of the war
- Name
- USS Day
- Namesake
- Chief Petty Officer Francis Daniel Day
- Builder
- Philadelphia Navy Yard
- Laid down
- 15 July 1943
- Launched
- 14 October 1943
- Commissioned
- 10 June 1944
- Decommissioned
- 16 May 1946
- Struck
- 30 June 1968
- Fate
- Sunk as target 1 March 1969 (1969)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,450 long tons (1,473 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
- Complement
- 186
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Day was a destroyer escort of the Rudderow of the United States Navy. She was named for Chief Petty Officer Francis Daniel Day. Philadelphia Navy Yard laid her keel on 15 July 1943. She entered service on 10 June 1944, having been launched on 14 October 1943.
Displacement was 1,450 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 186.
Her main battery was two 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 449 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 16 May 1946. She was struck from the register on 30 June 1968.
She was expended as a target on 1 March 1969. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Armament
- 2 × 5 in/38 cal (127 mm) (2×1)
- 4 × 40-mm (2×2)
- 10 × 20 mm (10×1)
- 3 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (1×3)
- 1 Hedgehog depth bomb thrower
- 8 depth charge projectors (8×1)
- 2 depth charge racks
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Day on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy photo [1] from Navsource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons