USS Earle
Service
- as Earle1 September 1942 — 17 May 19471,097 days of the war
- Name
- USS Earle
- Namesake
- Ralph Earle
- Builder
- Boston Navy Yard
- Laid down
- 14 June 1941
- Launched
- 10 December 1941
- Commissioned
- 1 September 1942
- Decommissioned
- 17 May 1947
- Struck
- 1 December 1969
- Fate
- Sold October 1970 and broken up for scrap (1970)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,630 long tons (1,656 t)
- Length
- 106.07 m (348 ft)
- Beam
- 11.28 m (37 ft)
- Draught
- 3.35 m (11 ft)
- Speed
- 37.4 knots (69.3 km/h, 43 mph)
- Range
- 6,500 nmi (12,038 km)
- Complement
- 276
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Earle was a Gleaves-class destroyer built for the United States Navy. The ship was named after Ralph Earle. Her keel was laid at Boston Navy Yard on 14 June 1941. Launched on 10 December 1941, she entered service on 1 September 1942.
66 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Benson-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Fletcher-class destroyer.
She displaced 1,630 long tons. She measured 106.1 m (348 ft) long with a beam of 11.3 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 37.4 knots, and she carried a complement of 276.
Her main battery was four 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 1,097 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 17 May 1947. She was struck from the register on 1 December 1969.
She was broken up for scrap in October 1970.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 50000 shp
- 4 boilers
- 2 propellers
- Armament
- 4 × 5 in/38-caliber dual-purpose gun
- 4 × Bofors 40 mm guns guns
- 7 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons
- 5 × 21 in torpedo tubes (5 Mark 15 torpedoes)
- 6 × K-gun depth charge projectors
- 2 × depth charge tracks
Sister ships
- USS Aaron Ward (DD-483)
- USS Baldwin
- USS Beatty (DD-640)
- USS Bristol (DD-453)
- USS Buchanan (DD-484)
- USS Butler
- USS Carmick
- USS Corry (DD-463)
- USS Cowie
- USS Davison
- USS Doran (DD-634)
- USS Doyle (DMS-34)
- USS Duncan (DD-485)
- USS Eberle
- USS Edison (DD-439)
- USS Edwards (DD-619)
- USS Ellyson
- USS Emmons
- USS Endicott
- USS Ericsson (DD-440)
- USS Fitch
- USS Forrest
- USS Frankford
- USS Gherardi
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Earle on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: USN/ONI — https://www.navsource.net/archives/05/635.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons