USS Lloyd E. Acree
Service
- as Lloyd E. Acree1 August 1944 — 10 October 1946397 days of the war
- Name
- USS Lloyd E. Acree
- Namesake
- Lloyd Edgar Acree
- Builder
- Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
- Laid down
- 24 January 1944
- Launched
- 21 March 1944
- Commissioned
- 1 August 1944
- Decommissioned
- 10 October 1946
- Struck
- 15 January 1972
- Fate
- Sold for scrap 13 June 1973 (1973)
- Status
- Scrapped
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 Lloyd E. Acree was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy. She was named for Lloyd Edgar Acree. Her keel was laid at Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas on 24 January 1944. Launched on 21 March 1944, she entered service on 1 August 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.
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 397 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 10 October 1946. She was struck from the register on 15 January 1972.
She was broken up for scrap on 13 June 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 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 Lloyd E. Acree on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Own work — Own work (from my grandfather who served on the Lloyd E. Acree ) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons