USS Doyle C. Barnes
Service
- as Doyle C. Barnes13 July 1944 — 15 January 1947416 days of the war
- Name
- USS Doyle C. Barnes
- Namesake
- Doyle Clayton Barnes
- Builder
- Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
- Laid down
- 11 January 1944
- Launched
- 4 March 1944
- Commissioned
- 13 July 1944
- Decommissioned
- 15 January 1947
- Struck
- 1 December 1972
- Fate
- Sold for scrap 12 September 1973 (1973)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,350 long tons (1,372 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)
- Range
- 6,000 nmi (11,112 km)
- Complement
- 215
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Doyle C. Barnes was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy. The ship was named after Doyle Clayton Barnes. Her keel was laid at Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas on 11 January 1944. She entered service on 13 July 1944, having been launched on 4 March 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 416 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 15 January 1947. She was struck from the register on 1 December 1972.
She was broken up for scrap on 12 September 1973.
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 turbine engines, 12000 shp; 2 propellers
- Armament
- 2 × single 5 in (127 mm) guns
- 2 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns
- 10 × single 20 mm (0.79 in) AA guns
- 1 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 8 × depth charge throwers
- 1 × Hedgehog ASW mortar
- 2 × depth charge racks
Sister ships
- USS Abercrombie
- USS Albert T. Harris
- USS Bivin
- USS Cecil J. Doyle
- USS Charles E. Brannon
- USS Chester T. O’Brien
- USS Conklin
- USS Corbesier (DE-438)
- USS Cross
- USS Dennis
- USS Douglas A. Munro
- USS Dufilho
- USS Edmonds
- USS Edward H. Allen
- USS Edwin A. Howard
- USS Eversole (DE-404)
- USS Formoe
- USS French
- USS Gentry
- USS George E. Davis
- USS Gilligan
- USS Goss
- USS Grady
- USS Haas
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Doyle C. Barnes on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Navy photo L45-78.06.01 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons