Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
United States Navy — Destroyer escort

USS Gentry

John C. Butler-class destroyer escort

USS Gentry
U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy photo 80-G-260626 from Navsource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate The U.S. Navy destroyer escort USS Gentry (DE-349) as seen from the escort carrier USS Solomons (CVE-67) on 15 October 1944. At this time, the Gentry was assigned convoy-escort voyages out of New York to Marseilles, France, and Oran, Algeria. She is wearing Camouflage Measure, Design 14D camouflage scheme.

Service

  1. United States Navy as Gentry14 June 1944 — 2 July 1946445 days of the war
John C. Butler-class destroyer escort Particulars
Name
USS Gentry
Namesake
Wayne Roy Gentry
Builder
Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
Laid down
13 December 1943
Launched
15 February 1944
Commissioned
14 June 1944
Decommissioned
2 July 1946
Struck
15 January 1972
Fate
Sold for scrapping 15 January 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 Gentry was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy. She was named for Wayne Roy Gentry. Her keel was laid at Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas on 13 December 1943. Launched on 15 February 1944, she entered service on 14 June 1944.

Her class ran to 81 ships. The class followed the Rudderow-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Dealey-class destroyer escort.

She displaced 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 445 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 2 July 1946. She was struck from the register on 15 January 1972.

She was broken up for scrap on 15 January 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

56 more in the class

Sources

  • Facts harvested from USS Gentry on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy photo 80-G-260626 from Navsource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons