USS William C. Cole
Service
- as USS William C. Cole12 May 1944 — 13 March 1948478 days of the war
- Name
- USS William C. Cole
- Namesake
- William Carey Cole
- Builder
- Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco
- Laid down
- 5 September 1943
- Launched
- 29 December 1943
- Commissioned
- 12 May 1944
- Decommissioned
- 13 March 1948
- Struck
- 1 March 1972
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 20 November 1972 (1972)
- 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
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Draught
- 3.96 m (13 ft)
- Speed
- 24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
- Range
- 4,940 nmi (9,149 km)
- Complement
- 213
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS William C. Cole was a Buckley-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy. She was named for William Carey Cole. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco laid her keel on 5 September 1943. Launched on 29 December 1943, she entered service on 12 May 1944.
She was one of 98 ships of her class. The class followed the Evarts-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Cannon-class destroyer escort.
Displacement was 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 11.0 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 24 knots, and she carried a complement of 213.
Her main battery was three 76 mm (3 in) guns.
She was in commission for 478 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 13 March 1948. She was struck from the register on 1 March 1972.
She was broken up for scrap on 20 November 1972.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- GE turbo-electric drive
- 12000 shp
- 2 propellers
- Armament
- 3 × 3 in (76 mm) DP guns
- 3 × 21 in (53 cm) torpedo tubes
- 1 × 1.1 in (28 mm) quad AA gun
- 10 × 20 mm cannon
- 1 × Hedgehog projector
- 2 × depth charge tracks
- 8 × K-gun depth charge projectors
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 William C. Cole on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Official U.S. Navy photograph taken by an aircraft from Naval Air Station Alameda, California (USA) — U.S. Navy photo [1] from Navsource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons