USS Fogg
Service
- as USS Fogg7 July 1943 — 27 October 1947788 days of the war
- Name
- USS Fogg
- Builder
- Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard
- Ordered
- 1942
- Laid down
- 4 December 1942
- Launched
- 20 March 1943
- Commissioned
- 7 July 1943
- Decommissioned
- 27 October 1947
- Struck
- 1 April 1965
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 4 January 1966 (1966)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,740 long tons (1,768 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 11.28 m (37 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 23 knots (42.6 km/h, 26.5 mph)
- Range
- 3,700 nmi (6,852 km)
- Complement
- 213
- Main gun
- 20 mm (0.8 in)
USS Fogg was a Buckley-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy. Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard laid her keel on 4 December 1942. Launched on 20 March 1943, she entered service on 7 July 1943.
98 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Evarts-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Cannon-class destroyer escort.
Displacement was 1,740 long tons. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 11.3 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 23 knots, and she carried a complement of 213.
Her main battery was eight 20 mm (0.8 in) guns.
She was in commission for 788 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 27 October 1947. She was struck from the register on 1 April 1965.
She was broken up for scrap on 4 January 1966.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × boilers
- General Electric turbo-electric drive
- 12000 shp
- 2 × solid manganese-bronze 3600 lb 3-bladed propellers, 8 ft diameter, 7 ft pitch
- 2 × rudders
- 359 tons fuel oil
- Armament
- 3 × 3-inch/50-caliber guns
- 1 × quad 1.1-inch/75-caliber gun
- 8 × single 20 mm guns
- 1 × triple 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
- 8 × K-gun depth charge projectors
- 2 × depth charge tracks
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 Fogg 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