USS Emery
Service
- as USS Emery (DE-28)14 August 1943 — 15 November 1945750 days of the war
- Name
- USS Emery
- Builder
- Mare Island Navy Yard
- Laid down
- 29 October 1942
- Launched
- 17 April 1943
- Commissioned
- 14 August 1943
- Decommissioned
- 15 November 1945
- Struck
- 28 November 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrap on 27 July 1947 (1947)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,430 long tons (1,453 t)
- Length
- 86.26 m (283 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 Emery was a Evarts-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy. Mare Island Navy Yard laid her keel on 29 October 1942. Launched on 17 April 1943, she entered service on 14 August 1943.
Her class ran to 67 ships. The class followed the N/A and was succeeded by the Buckley-class destroyer escort.
She displaced 1,430 long tons. She measured 86.3 m (283 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 three 76 mm (3 in) guns.
She was in commission for 750 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 15 November 1945. She was struck from the register on 28 November 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 27 July 1947.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 4 General Motors Model 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive
- 6,000 shp
- 2 screws
- Armament
- 3 × 3 in cal Mk 22 dual purpose guns (1×3), 4 × 1.1"/75 caliber gun (1×4), 9 × Oerlikon 20 mm Mk 4 AA cannons, 1 × Hedgehog Projector Mk 10 (144 rounds), 8 × Mk 6 depth charge projectors, 2 × Mk 9 depth charge tracks
Sister ships
- HMS Bazely
- HMS Goodson
- HMS Inglis
- HMS Lawford (K514)
- USS Andres
- USS Austin (DE-15)
- USS Bebas
- USS Brackett
- USS Brennan
- USS Burden R. Hastings
- USS Cabana
- USS Canfield
- USS Carlson
- USS Charles R. Greer
- USS Cloues
- USS Connolly
- USS Crouter
- USS Crowley
- USS Decker
- USS Deede
- USS Dempsey (DE-26)
- USS Dionne
- USS Dobler
- USS Doherty
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Emery on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy Photo #DE-28-2720-43 — https://www.navsource.net/archives/06/028.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons