USS McGinty
Service
- as McGinty25 September 1944 — 23 September 1968342 days of the war
- Name
- USS McGinty
- Namesake
- Franklin Alexander McGinty
- Builder
- Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
- Laid down
- 3 May 1944
- Launched
- 5 August 1944
- Commissioned
- 25 September 1944
- Decommissioned
- 15 January 1947
- Recommissioned
- 28 March 1951
- Struck
- 23 September 1968
- Fate
- Scrapped starting 1969 (1969)
- 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 McGinty was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy. The ship was named after Franklin Alexander McGinty. Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas laid her keel on 3 May 1944. Launched on 5 August 1944, she entered service on 25 September 1944.
Her class ran to 81 ships. The class followed the Rudderow-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Dealey-class destroyer escort.
Displacement was 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 342 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 15 January 1947. She recommissioned on 28 March 1951. She was struck from the register on 23 September 1968.
She was broken up for scrap in 1969.
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 McGinty on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Navy photo NH 73470 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons