USS Martin H. Ray
Service
- 28 February 1944 — March 1946552 days of the war
- Name
- USS Martin H. Ray
- Namesake
- Martin H. Ray, Jr.
- Builder
- Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
- Laid down
- 27 October 1943
- Launched
- 29 December 1943
- Commissioned
- 28 February 1944
- Decommissioned
- March 1946
- Struck
- 1 May 1966
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping 30 March 1967 (1967)
- 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 Martin H. Ray was a Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy. She was named for Martin H. Ray. Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas laid her keel on 27 October 1943. Launched on 29 December 1943, she entered service on 28 February 1944.
78 ships of the class were built. 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 552 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in March 1946. She was struck from the register on 1 May 1966.
She was broken up for scrap on 30 March 1967.
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 Hill
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Martin H. Ray on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Navy photos 26-G-4502 and NH 79808 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons