USS Fieberling
Service
- as USS Fieberling11 April 1944 — 13 March 1948509 days of the war
- Name
- USS Fieberling
- Namesake
- Langdon K. Fieberling
- Builder
- Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco
- Laid down
- 19 March 1944
- Launched
- 2 April 1944
- Commissioned
- 11 April 1944
- Decommissioned
- 13 March 1948
- Struck
- 1 March 1972
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 20 November 1972 (1972)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,400 long tons (1,422 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,740 long tons (1,768 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Draught
- 3.96 m (13 ft)
- Speed
- 24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
- Range
- 4,940 nmi (9,149 km)
- Complement
- 213
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Fieberling was a Buckley-class destroyer escort, operated by the United States Navy. The ship was named after Langdon K. Fieberling. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco laid her keel on 19 March 1944. She entered service on 11 April 1944, having been launched on 2 April 1944.
She was one of 98 ships of her class. The class followed the Evarts-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Cannon-class destroyer escort.
She displaced 1,400 long tons standard and 1,740 long tons at full load. 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 213.
Her main battery was three 76 mm (3 in) guns.
She was in commission for 509 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 13 March 1948. She was struck from the register on 1 March 1972.
She was broken up for scrap on 20 November 1972.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- General Electric turbo-electric drive
- 12000 shp
- 2 × propellers
- Armament
- 3 × 3 in (76 mm) DP guns
- 3 × 21 in (53 cm) torpedo tubes
- 1 × quad 1.1 in (28 mm) AA gun
- 8 × 20 mm cannon
- 1 × hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
- 2 × depth charge tracks
- 8 × K-gun depth charge projectors
Sister ships
- HMS Bentinck (K314)
- HMS Bligh
- HMS Byron
- HMS Calder (K349)
- HMS Conn
- HMS Cosby
- HMS Dakins
- HMS Duff (K352)
- HMS Ekins
- HMS Fitzroy (K553)
- HMS Halsted (K556)
- HMS Hargood (K582)
- HMS Holmes (K581)
- HMS Hotham (K583)
- HMS Redmill (K554)
- HMS Retalick
- HMS Riou
- HMS Rowley
- HMS Rupert (K561)
- HMS Rutherford
- HMS Seymour (K563)
- HMS Spragge (K572)
- HMS Stockham
- HMS Thornborough
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Fieberling on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy photo NARA 19-LCM-DE640-4 from Navsource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons