USS Hill
Service
- 16 August 1943 — 7 June 1946748 days of the war
- Name
- USS Hill
- Namesake
- Edwin J. Hill
- Builder
- Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
- Laid down
- 21 December 1942
- Launched
- 28 February 1943
- Commissioned
- 16 August 1943
- Decommissioned
- 7 June 1946
- Struck
- 1 October 1972
- Fate
- Sold 18 January 1974, scrapped (1974)
- 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 Hill was a Edsall-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy. She was named for Edwin J. Hill. Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas laid her keel on 21 December 1942. Launched on 28 February 1943, she entered service on 16 August 1943.
She was one of 78 ships of her class. The class followed the Cannon-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Rudderow-class destroyer escort.
She displaced 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 748 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 7 June 1946. She was struck from the register on 1 October 1972.
She was broken up for scrap on 18 January 1974.
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 Herbert C. Jones
- USS Holder (DE-401)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Hill on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo 19-N-62972 from Navsource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons