USS Gilligan
Service
- 12 May 1944 — 2 July 1946478 days of the war
- Name
- USS Gilligan
- Laid down
- 18 November 1943
- Launched
- 22 February 1944
- Commissioned
- 12 May 1944
- Decommissioned
- 2 July 1946
- Struck
- 1 March 1972
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping 20 November 1973 (1973)
- 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 Gilligan was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid on 18 November 1943. Launched on 22 February 1944, she entered service on 12 May 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.
She was in commission for 478 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 2 July 1946. She was struck from the register on 1 March 1972.
She was broken up for scrap on 20 November 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 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 Formoe
- USS French
- USS Gentry
- USS George E. Davis
- USS Goss
- USS Grady
- USS Haas
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Gilligan 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