USS Thomas F. Nickel
Service
- as USS Thomas F. Nickel9 June 1944 — 26 February 1958450 days of the war
- Name
- USS Thomas F. Nickel
- Namesake
- Thomas F. Nickel
- Builder
- Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard
- Laid down
- 15 December 1943
- Launched
- 22 January 1944
- Commissioned
- 9 June 1944
- Decommissioned
- 31 May 1946
- Recommissioned
- 22 September 1950
- Struck
- 1 December 1972
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 9 June 1973 (1973)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,673 long tons (1,700 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,780 long tons (1,809 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft) OA
- Beam
- 11.28 m (37 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 23.5 knots (43.5 km/h, 27 mph)
- Range
- 5,500 nmi (10,186 km)
- Complement
- 221
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
USS Thomas F. Nickel was a Rudderow-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy. The ship was named after Thomas F. Nickel. Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard laid her keel on 15 December 1943. Launched on 22 January 1944, she entered service on 9 June 1944.
Eight ships of the class were built. The class followed the Edsall-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the John C. Butler-class destroyer escort.
Displacement was 1,673 long tons standard and 1,780 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 23.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 221.
Her main battery was four 40 mm (1.6 in) guns in two twin mountings.
She was in commission for 450 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 31 May 1946. She recommissioned on 22 September 1950. She was struck from the register on 1 December 1972.
She was broken up for scrap on 9 June 1973.
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 Foster Wheeler boilers, 12000 hp
- General Electric turbines and electric motors (turboelectric drive), 2 shafts
- 378 tons oil fuel
- Armament
- 2 × single 5-inch/38-caliber guns
- 2 × twin 40 mm guns
- 10 × 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
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Thomas F. Nickel 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