United States Navy — Destroyer escort
USS Steele
Service
- 4 May 1943 — 21 November 1945852 days of the war
Evarts-class destroyer escort
Particulars
- Name
- USS Steele
- Builder
- Boston Navy Yard
- Laid down
- 27 January 1942
- Launched
- 9 January 1943
- Commissioned
- 4 May 1943
- Decommissioned
- 21 November 1945
- Struck
- 5 December 1945
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,140 long tons (1,158 t)
- Length
- 88.09 m (289 ft)
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Complement
- 198
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Steele was a Evarts-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy. Her keel was laid at Boston Navy Yard on 27 January 1942. Launched on 9 January 1943, she entered service on 4 May 1943.
Her class ran to 67 ships. The class followed the N/A and was succeeded by the Buckley-class destroyer escort.
Displacement was 1,140 long tons. She measured 88.1 m (289 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). She carried a complement of 198. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 852 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 21 November 1945. She was struck from the register on 5 December 1945.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Armament
- 3 3 in, 4 1.1"/75 caliber gun, 2 40 mm., 9 20 mm., 3 dct., 8 dcp., 1 dcp. (hh.)
Sister ships
- HMS Bazely
- HMS Goodson
- HMS Inglis
- HMS Lawford (K514)
- USS Andres
- USS Austin (DE-15)
- USS Bebas
- USS Brackett
- USS Brennan
- USS Burden R. Hastings
- USS Cabana
- USS Canfield
- USS Carlson
- USS Charles R. Greer
- USS Cloues
- USS Connolly
- USS Crouter
- USS Crowley
- USS Decker
- USS Deede
- USS Dempsey (DE-26)
- USS Dionne
- USS Dobler
- USS Doherty
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Steele on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Jim Brewer RM 2/c, U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy photo [1] from desausa.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons