USS Willmarth
Service
- as USS Willmarth13 March 1944 — 26 April 1946538 days of the war
- Name
- USS Willmarth
- Namesake
- Ens. Kenneth Willmarth, USN
- Builder
- Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California
- Ordered
- 1942
- Laid down
- 25 June 1943
- Launched
- 21 November 1943
- Commissioned
- 13 March 1944
- Decommissioned
- 26 April 1946
- Struck
- 1 December 1966
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 1 July 1968 (1968)
- 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 Willmarth was a Buckley-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy. She was named for Ens. Kenneth Willmarth. Her keel was laid at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California on 25 June 1943. Launched on 21 November 1943, she entered service on 13 March 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 11.3 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 538 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 26 April 1946. She was struck from the register on 1 December 1966.
She was broken up for scrap on 1 July 1968.
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 Willmarth on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo BS 65235 available at usndazzle.com — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons