USS Formoe
Service
- as USS Formoe (DE-509)5 October 1944 — 1 October 1968332 days of the war
- as NRP Diogo-Cão (F 333)7 February 1957 — 19 November 1968
- Name
- USS Formoe
- Namesake
- Aviation Machinists Mate First Class Clarence Melvin Formoe (1909-1941)
- Builder
- Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newark, New Jersey
- Laid down
- 3 January 1944
- Launched
- 2 April 1944
- Commissioned
- 5 October 1944
- Decommissioned
- 27 May 1946
- Recommissioned
- 27 June 1951
- Struck
- 1 October 1968
- Fate
- Scrapped 1970 (1970)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,350 long tons (1,372 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Draught
- 3.96 m (13 ft)
- Speed
- 24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
- Complement
- 215
USS Formoe was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort, operated by the United States Navy. Her keel was laid at Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newark, New Jersey on 3 January 1944. She entered service on 5 October 1944, having been launched on 2 April 1944.
Her class ran to 81 ships. The class followed the Rudderow-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Dealey-class destroyer escort.
Displacement was 1,350 long tons. 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 215.
She served with the United States Navy as USS Formoe (DE-509) until 1 October 1968. She then passed to the Portuguese Navy, serving as NRP Diogo-Cão (F 333) from 7 February 1957. She was in commission for 332 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 27 May 1946. She recommissioned on 27 June 1951. She was struck from the register on 1 October 1968.
She was broken up for scrap in 1970.
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, 2 geared steam turbines, 12,000 shp, 2 screws
- Armament
- 2-5 in, 4 (2 × 2) 40 mm AA, 10-20 mm guns AA, 3-21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 1 Hedgehog, 8 depth charge projectors, 2 depth charge tracks
Sister ships
- USS Abercrombie
- USS Albert T. Harris
- USS Bivin
- USS Cecil J. Doyle
- USS Charles E. Brannon
- USS Chester T. O’Brien
- USS Conklin
- USS Corbesier (DE-438)
- USS Cross
- USS Dennis
- USS Douglas A. Munro
- USS Doyle C. Barnes
- USS Dufilho
- USS Edmonds
- USS Edward H. Allen
- USS Edwin A. Howard
- USS Eversole (DE-404)
- USS French
- USS Gentry
- USS George E. Davis
- USS Gilligan
- USS Goss
- USS Grady
- USS Haas
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Formoe 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