USS Fessenden
Service
- as USS Fessenden25 August 1943 — 30 June 1960739 days of the war
- Name
- USS Fessenden
- Namesake
- Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
- Builder
- Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
- Laid down
- 4 January 1943
- Launched
- 9 March 1943
- Commissioned
- 25 August 1943
- Decommissioned
- 30 June 1960
- Struck
- 1 September 1966
- Fate
- Sunk as target off Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 20 December 1967 (1967)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,253 long tons (1,273 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,590 long tons (1,616 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 11.15 m (36.6 ft)
- Draught
- 3.18 m (10.4 ft)
- Speed
- 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
- Range
- 9,100 nmi (16,853 km)
- Complement
- 209
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Fessenden was a Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy. She was named for Reginald Aubrey Fessenden. Her keel was laid at Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas on 4 January 1943. She entered service on 25 August 1943, having been launched on 9 March 1943.
78 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Cannon-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Rudderow-class destroyer escort.
She displaced 1,253 long tons standard and 1,590 long tons at full load. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 11.2 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 21 knots, and she carried a complement of 209.
Her main battery was three 76 mm (3 in) guns.
She was in commission for 739 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 30 June 1960. She was struck from the register on 1 September 1966.
She was expended as a target on 20 December 1967. The wreck survives.
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 FM diesel engines
- 4 diesel-generators
- 6,000 shp (4.5 MW)
- 2 screws
- Armament
- 3 × single 3 in (76 mm)/50 guns
- 1 × twin 40 mm AA guns
- 8 × single 20 mm AA guns
- 1 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 8 × depth charge projectors
- 1 × depth charge projector (hedgehog)
- 2 × depth charge tracks
Sister ships
- USS Blair
- USS Brister
- USS Brough
- USS Calcaterra
- USS Camp
- USS Chambers
- USS Chatelain
- USS Cockrill
- USS Dale W. Peterson
- USS Daniel
- USS Douglas L. Howard
- USS Falgout
- USS Farquhar (DE-139)
- USS Fiske (DE-143)
- USS Flaherty
- USS Forster
- USS Frederick C. Davis
- USS Frost
- USS Hammann (DE-131)
- USS Harveson
- USS Haverfield
- USS Herbert C. Jones
- USS Hill
- USS Holder (DE-401)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Fessenden on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy All Hands magazine September 1956 , p. 24 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons