USS Dufilho
Service
- as Dulfiho21 July 1944 — 14 May 1946408 days of the war
- Name
- USS Dufilho
- Namesake
- Marion William Dufilho
- Builder
- Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Texas
- Laid down
- 31 January 1944
- Launched
- 9 March 1944
- Commissioned
- 21 July 1944
- Decommissioned
- 14 May 1946
- Struck
- 1 December 1972
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping 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 Dufilho was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort, operated by the United States Navy. The ship was named after Marion William Dufilho. Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Texas laid her keel on 31 January 1944. She entered service on 21 July 1944, having been launched on 9 March 1944.
81 ships of the class were built. 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 408 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 14 May 1946. 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, 12,000 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 Doyle C. Barnes
- 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 Dufilho on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. National Archives photo BS98961 from usndazzle.com and de220.com — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons