USS Frederick C. Davis
Service
- as Frederick C. Davis14 July 1943 — 24 April 1945650 days of the war
- Name
- USS Frederick C. Davis
- Namesake
- Frederick Curtice Davis
- Builder
- Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
- Laid down
- 9 November 1942
- Launched
- 24 January 1943
- Commissioned
- 14 July 1943
- Fate
- Sunk, 24 April 1945 (1945)
- 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 Frederick C. Davis was a Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy. She was named for Frederick Curtice Davis. Her keel was laid at Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas on 9 November 1942. Launched on 24 January 1943, she entered service on 14 July 1943.
Her class ran to 78 ships. The class followed the Cannon-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Rudderow-class destroyer escort.
Displacement was 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 650 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 24 April 1945, at 43°52′N 40°15′W. 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
- 6000 shp
- 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 Flaherty
- USS Forster
- 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 Frederick C. Davis on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — Official U.S. Navy photo NH 91425 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons