USS Herbert C. Jones
Service
- 21 July 1943 — 2 May 1947774 days of the war
- Name
- USS Herbert C. Jones
- Namesake
- Herbert C. Jones
- Builder
- Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
- Laid down
- 30 November 1942
- Launched
- 19 January 1943
- Commissioned
- 21 July 1943
- Decommissioned
- 2 May 1947
- Struck
- 1 July 1972
- Fate
- Sold 19 July 1973, scrapped (1973)
- Status
- Scrapped
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 Herbert C. Jones was a Edsall-class destroyer escort, operated by the United States Navy. She was named for Herbert C. Jones. Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas laid her keel on 30 November 1942. Launched on 19 January 1943, she entered service on 21 July 1943.
78 ships of the class were built. 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 774 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 2 May 1947. She was struck from the register on 1 July 1972.
She was broken up for scrap on 19 July 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
- 4 FM diesel engines
- 4 diesel-generators
- 6,000 shp (4.5 MW)
- 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 Frederick C. Davis
- USS Frost
- USS Hammann (DE-131)
- USS Harveson
- USS Haverfield
- USS Hill
- USS Holder (DE-401)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Herbert C. Jones 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