USS French
Service
- as French9 October 1944 — 29 May 1946328 days of the war
- Name
- USS French
- Namesake
- Neldon Theo French
- Builder
- Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
- Laid down
- 1 May 1944
- Launched
- 17 June 1944
- Commissioned
- 9 October 1944
- Decommissioned
- 29 May 1946
- Struck
- 15 May 1972
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping 20 September 1973 (1973)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,350 long tons (1,372 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
- Range
- 6,000 nmi (11,112 km)
- Complement
- 215
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS French was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy. She was named for Neldon Theo French. Her keel was laid at Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas on 1 May 1944. Launched on 17 June 1944, she entered service on 9 October 1944.
81 ships of the class were built. 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.
Her main battery was two 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 328 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 29 May 1946. She was struck from the register on 15 May 1972.
She was broken up for scrap on 20 September 1973.
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 turbine engines, 12000 shp; 2 propellers
- Armament
- 2 × single 5 in (127 mm) guns
- 2 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns
- 10 × single 20 mm (0.79 in) AA guns
- 1 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 8 × depth charge throwers
- 1 × Hedgehog ASW mortar
- 2 × depth charge racks
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 Formoe
- USS Gentry
- USS George E. Davis
- USS Gilligan
- USS Goss
- USS Grady
- USS Haas
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS French on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo BS 90425 from usndazzle.com — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons