USS Jaccard
Service
- as Jaccard26 July 1944 — 30 September 1946403 days of the war
- Name
- USS Jaccard
- Namesake
- Richard Alonzo Jaccard
- Builder
- Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
- Laid down
- 25 January 1944
- Launched
- 18 March 1944
- Commissioned
- 26 July 1944
- Decommissioned
- 30 September 1946
- Struck
- 1 November 1967
- Fate
- Expended as a target 4 October 1968 (1968)
- Status
- Wreck
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 Jaccard was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort, operated by the United States Navy. She was named for Richard Alonzo Jaccard. Her keel was laid at Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas on 25 January 1944. Launched on 18 March 1944, she entered service on 26 July 1944.
She was one of 81 ships of her class. 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 403 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 30 September 1946. She was struck from the register on 1 November 1967.
She was expended as a target on 4 October 1968. The wreck survives.
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 French
- USS Gentry
- USS George E. Davis
- USS Gilligan
- USS Goss
- USS Grady
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Jaccard on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo 73395 from usndazzle.com — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons