USS Flaherty
Service
- 26 June 1943 — 17 June 1946799 days of the war
- Name
- USS Flaherty
- Namesake
- Francis C. Flaherty
- Builder
- Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
- Laid down
- 7 November 1942
- Launched
- 17 January 1943
- Commissioned
- 26 June 1943
- Decommissioned
- 17 June 1946
- Struck
- 1 April 1965
- Fate
- Sold 4 November 1966, scrapped (1966)
- Status
- Scrapped
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 Flaherty was a Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy. She was named for Francis C. Flaherty. Her keel was laid at Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas on 7 November 1942. She entered service on 26 June 1943, having been launched on 17 January 1943.
She was one of 78 ships of her class. 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 799 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 17 June 1946. She was struck from the register on 1 April 1965.
She was broken up for scrap on 4 November 1966.
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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 Fessenden
- USS Fiske (DE-143)
- 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 Flaherty on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy photo [1] from Navsource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons