USS Mills
Service
- 12 October 1943 — 27 October 1970691 days of the war
- Name
- USS Mills
- Namesake
- Lloyd Jones Mills
- Builder
- Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Texas
- Laid down
- 26 March 1943
- Launched
- 26 May 1943
- Commissioned
- 12 October 1943
- Decommissioned
- 27 October 1970
- Struck
- 1 August 1974
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping 12 March 1975 (1975)
- 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 Mills was a Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy. She was named for Lloyd Jones Mills. Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Texas laid her keel on 26 March 1943. Launched on 26 May 1943, she entered service on 12 October 1943.
78 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Cannon-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Rudderow-class destroyer escort.
Displacement was 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 691 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 27 October 1970. She was struck from the register on 1 August 1974.
She was broken up for scrap on 12 March 1975.
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 Mills on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: N. Metta, U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy photo NH 107603 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons