USS Lloyd
Service
- as USS Lloyd11 February 1944 — 18 February 1958569 days of the war
- Name
- USS Lloyd
- Namesake
- William R. Lloyd
- Builder
- Charleston Navy Yard
- Ordered
- 1942
- Laid down
- 26 July 1943
- Launched
- 23 October 1943
- Commissioned
- 11 February 1944
- Decommissioned
- 1 July 1946
- Recommissioned
- 3 January 1951
- Struck
- 1 June 1966
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 5 March 1968 (1968)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,740 long tons (1,768 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 11.28 m (37 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 23 knots (42.6 km/h, 26.5 mph)
- Range
- 3,700 nmi (6,852 km)
- Complement
- 213
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Lloyd was a Buckley-class destroyer escort, operated by the United States Navy. She was named for William R. Lloyd. Her keel was laid at Charleston Navy Yard on 26 July 1943. She entered service on 11 February 1944, having been launched on 23 October 1943.
She was one of 98 ships of her class. The class followed the Evarts-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Cannon-class destroyer escort.
She displaced 1,740 long tons. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 11.3 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 23 knots, and she carried a complement of 213. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 569 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 1 July 1946. She recommissioned on 3 January 1951. She was struck from the register on 1 June 1966.
She was broken up for scrap on 5 March 1968.
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
- General Electric turbo-electric drive
- 12000 shp
- 2 × solid manganese-bronze 3600 lb 3-bladed propellers, 8 ft diameter, 7 ft pitch
- 2 × rudders
- 359 tons fuel oil
- Armament
- 3 × 3"/50 caliber guns
- 1 × quad 1.1"/75 caliber gun
- 8 × single 20 mm guns
- 1 × triple 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
- 8 × K-gun depth charge projectors
- 2 × depth charge tracks
Sister ships
- HMS Bentinck (K314)
- HMS Bligh
- HMS Byron
- HMS Calder (K349)
- HMS Conn
- HMS Cosby
- HMS Dakins
- HMS Duff (K352)
- HMS Ekins
- HMS Fitzroy (K553)
- HMS Halsted (K556)
- HMS Hargood (K582)
- HMS Holmes (K581)
- HMS Hotham (K583)
- HMS Redmill (K554)
- HMS Retalick
- HMS Riou
- HMS Rowley
- HMS Rupert (K561)
- HMS Rutherford
- HMS Seymour (K563)
- HMS Spragge (K572)
- HMS Stockham
- HMS Thornborough
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Lloyd on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo 19-NN-APD-63 Lloyd-137887 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons