USS Snyder

Cannon-class destroyer escort Particulars

Name: USS Snyder
Namesake: Ensign Russell Snyder
Builder: Western Pipe and Steel Company
Laid down: 28 April 1943
Launched: 29 August 1943
Commissioned: 5 May 1944
Decommissioned: 5 May 1960
Struck: 1 August 1972
Fate: Scrapped, 1 November 1973 (1973)
Status: Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard: 1,240 long tons (1,260 t)
Length: 93.27 m (306 ft) OA
Beam: 10.97 m (36 ft)
Draught: 3.35 m (11 ft)
Speed: 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
Range: 10,800 nmi (20,002 km)
Complement: 216
Main gun: 40 mm (1.6 in)

USS Snyder was a Cannon-class destroyer escort. The ship was named after Ensign Russell Snyder. Western Pipe and Steel Company laid her keel on 28 April 1943. Launched on 29 August 1943, she entered service on 5 May 1944.

She was one of 79 ships of her class. The class followed the Buckley-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Edsall-class destroyer escort.

She displaced 1,240 long tons. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 11.0 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 21 knots, and she carried a complement of 216.

Her main battery was two 40 mm (1.6 in) guns in one twin mountings.

She was decommissioned on 5 May 1960. She was struck from the register on 1 August 1972.

She was broken up for scrap on 1 November 1973.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: 4 × GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Armament: 3 × single Mk.22 3-inch/50-caliber guns
1 × twin 40 mm Mk.1 AA gun
8 × 20 mm Mk.4 AA guns
3 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
1 × Hedgehog Mk.10 anti-submarine mortar (144 rounds)
8 × Mk.6 depth charge projectors
2 × Mk.9 depth charge tracks

Sister ships

54 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from USS Snyder on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy photo [1] from Navsource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons