USS Fair
Service
- as Fair23 October 1943 — 17 November 1945680 days of the war
- Name
- USS Fair
- Builder
- Mare Island Navy Yard
- Laid down
- 24 February 1943
- Launched
- 27 July 1943
- Commissioned
- 23 October 1943
- Decommissioned
- 17 November 1945
- Struck
- 28 November 1945
- Fate
- Transferred to the Army on 20 May 1947 for loan to Canada, returned to USN in 1948 and scrapped in 1949 (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
- 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
- Complement
- 198
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Fair was a Evarts class destroyer escort, operated by the United States Navy. Mare Island Navy Yard laid her keel on 24 February 1943. She entered service on 23 October 1943, having been launched on 27 July 1943.
67 ships of the class were built. The class followed the N/A and was succeeded by the Buckley-class destroyer escort.
Displacement was 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 21 knots, and she carried a complement of 198.
Her main battery was three 76 mm (3 in) guns.
She was in commission for 680 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 17 November 1945. She was struck from the register on 28 November 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 20 May 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
- 6000 shp
- 2 screws
- Armament
- 3 × 3 in cal Mk 22 (1×3) dual-purpose guns, 4 × 1.1-inch/75-caliber gun(4×1), 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 Fair on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Eugene H. Fogarty, U.S. Navy, crewmember of USS Fair (DE-35) — U.S. Navy photo [1] from Navsource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons