USS Pettit
Service
- 23 September 1943 — 6 May 1946710 days of the war
- Name
- USS Pettit
- Namesake
- Robert Lee Pettit
- Builder
- Brown Shipbuilding Houston, Texas
- Laid down
- 6 February 1943
- Launched
- 28 April 1943
- Commissioned
- 23 September 1943
- Decommissioned
- 6 May 1946
- Struck
- 1 August 1973
- Fate
- Sunk as target off Puerto Rico 30 September 1974 (1974)
- Status
- Wreck
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 Pettit was a Edsall-class destroyer escort, operated by the United States Navy. The ship was named after Robert Lee Pettit. Brown Shipbuilding Houston, Texas laid her keel on 6 February 1943. She entered service on 23 September 1943, having been launched on 28 April 1943.
Her class ran to 78 ships. 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 710 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 6 May 1946. She was struck from the register on 1 August 1973.
She was expended as a target on 30 September 1974. The wreck survives.
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 Pettit on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Navy photo NH 78755 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons