USS Spangenberg
Service
- as USS Spangenberg15 March 1944 — 18 October 1947536 days of the war
- Name
- USS Spangenberg
- Namesake
- Kenneth J. Spangenberg
- Builder
- Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Ordered
- 1942
- Laid down
- 5 April 1943
- Launched
- 3 July 1943
- Commissioned
- 15 March 1944
- Decommissioned
- 18 October 1947
- Struck
- 1 November 1965
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 3 October 1966 (1966)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,400 long tons (1,422 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,740 long tons (1,768 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 11.28 m (37 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 23 knots (42.6 km/h, 26.5 mph)
- Range
- 3,700 nmi (6,852 km)
- Complement
- 213
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Spangenberg was a Buckley-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy. The ship was named after Kenneth J. Spangenberg. Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania laid her keel on 5 April 1943. She entered service on 15 March 1944, having been launched on 3 July 1943.
98 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Evarts-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Cannon-class destroyer escort.
She displaced 1,400 long tons standard and 1,740 long tons at full load. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 11.3 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 23 knots, and she carried a complement of 213. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 536 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 18 October 1947. She was struck from the register on 1 November 1965.
She was broken up for scrap on 3 October 1966.
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
- General Electric turbo-electric drive
- 12000 shp
- 2 × solid manganese-bronze 3600 lb 3-bladed propellers, 8 ft diameter, 7 ft pitch
- 2 × rudders
- 359 tons fuel oil
- Armament
- 3 × 3"/50 caliber guns
- 1 × quad 1.1"/75 caliber gun
- 8 × single 20 mm guns
- 1 × triple 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
- 8 × K-gun depth charge projectors
- 2 × depth charge tracks
Sister ships
- HMS Bentinck (K314)
- HMS Bligh
- HMS Byron
- HMS Calder (K349)
- HMS Conn
- HMS Cosby
- HMS Dakins
- HMS Duff (K352)
- HMS Ekins
- HMS Fitzroy (K553)
- HMS Halsted (K556)
- HMS Hargood (K582)
- HMS Holmes (K581)
- HMS Hotham (K583)
- HMS Redmill (K554)
- HMS Retalick
- HMS Riou
- HMS Rowley
- HMS Rupert (K561)
- HMS Rutherford
- HMS Seymour (K563)
- HMS Spragge (K572)
- HMS Stockham
- HMS Thornborough
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Spangenberg on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy photo [1] / [2] from Navsource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons