USS Keith (DE-241)
Service
- as USS Keith19 July 1943 — 20 September 1946776 days of the war
- Name
- USS Keith
- Pennant / hull number
- DE-241
- Namesake
- Ellis Judson Keith
- Builder
- Brown Shipbuilding Company
- Laid down
- 1942
- Launched
- 21 December 1942
- Commissioned
- 19 July 1943
- Decommissioned
- 20 September 1946
- Struck
- 1 November 1972
- Fate
- Scrapped, 1974 (1974)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,200 long tons (1,219 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 7.92 m (26 ft)
- Draught
- 2.44 m (8 ft)
- Speed
- 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
- Complement
- 186
(DE-241; dp. 1,200; l. 306'; b. 26'7"; dr. 8'7", s. 21 k.; cpl. 186; a. 3 3", 8 40 mm., 10 20mm., 2 dct., 8 dcp., 3 21" tt.; cl . Edsall )
Ellis Judson Keith, Jr., was born at Houston, Tex., on 30 June 1919 and entered the Navy as a Seaman Second Class on 2 October 1941. He was assigned as a radioman and gunner on a patrol plane that flew on aerial bombardments and strafing attacks on enemy ships in the Aleutian Islands. Killed in action during a mission over Kiska Harbor 11 June 1942, Seaman Keith was awarded the Air Medal posthumously for his courage and fortitude.
Keith (DE-241), laid down as Scott and renamed Keith 8 December 1942, was launched 21 December 1942 by Brown Ship Building Co., Houston, Tex.; sponsored by Mrs. Ellis J. Keith, Sr., mother of Seaman Keith; and commissioned 19 July 1943 at Houston, Tex., Lt. D. Cochran in command.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Keith (DE-241)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Armament
- 3 × 3 in, 8 × 40 mm., 10 × 20 mm., 2 × depth charge tracks, 8 × K-gun depth charge projectors, 3 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
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 Hill
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Keith (DE-241) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Keith (DE-241) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy photo [1] from Navsource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons