USS Donaldson

Service

United States Navy as USS Donaldson1 December 1943 — 5 December 1945641 days of the war

USS Donaldson Particulars

Name: USS Donaldson
Namesake: Lt. (jg) Trose Emmett Donaldson
Builder: Puget Sound Navy Yard
Laid down: 12 January 1943
Launched: 1 August 1943
Commissioned: 1 December 1943
Decommissioned: 5 December 1945
Struck: 19 December 1945
Fate: Sold for scrapping, 2 July 1946 (1946)
Status: Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard: 1,140 long tons (1,158 t)
Length: 88.09 m (289 ft) OA
Beam: 10.67 m (35 ft)
Draught: 3.35 m (11 ft)
Speed: 19 knots (35.2 km/h, 21.9 mph)
Range: 4,150 nmi (7,686 km)
Complement: 198
Main gun: 76 mm (3 in)

USS Donaldson was a destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy. The ship was named after Lt. Her keel was laid at Puget Sound Navy Yard on 12 January 1943. Launched on 1 August 1943, she entered service on 1 December 1943.

Displacement was 1,140 long tons. She measured 88.1 m (289 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). 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 641 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 5 December 1945. She was struck from the register on 19 December 1945.

She was broken up for scrap on 2 July 1946.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: 4 × General Motors Model 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6000 shp
2 screws
Armament: 3 × single 3"/50 Mk.22 dual purpose 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

Sources

Facts harvested from USS Donaldson 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