USS Strickland
Service
- 10 January 1944 — 17 June 1959601 days of the war
- Name
- USS Strickland
- Namesake
- Everett C. Strickland
- Builder
- Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
- Laid down
- 23 August 1943
- Launched
- 2 November 1943
- Commissioned
- 10 January 1944
- Decommissioned
- 17 June 1959
- Struck
- 1 December 1972
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping 13 August 1974 (1974)
- 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 Strickland was a Edsall-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy. The ship was named after Everett C. Strickland. Her keel was laid at Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas on 23 August 1943. Launched on 2 November 1943, she entered service on 10 January 1944.
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 601 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 17 June 1959. She was struck from the register on 1 December 1972.
She was broken up for scrap on 13 August 1974.
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 Strickland on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy photo 80-G-701527 available at usndazzle.com — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons