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DEALEY destroyer escorts (1954 - 1958)


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Bridget 1963

Ships


No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
DE1006 Dealey 321 Bath Iron Wks 15.12.1952 8.11.1953 3.6.1954 to Uruguay 7.1972 (18 de Julio)
DE1014 Cromwell 322 Bath Iron Wks 3.8.1953 4.6.1954 24.11.1954 stricken 7.1972
DE1015 Hammerberg 323 Bath Iron Wks 12.11.1953 20.8.1954 2.3.1955 stricken 1.1974
DE1021 Courtney 427 Defoe, Bay City 2.9.1954 2.11.1955 24.9.1956 stricken 12.1973
DE1022 Lester 428 Defoe, Bay City 2.9.1954 5.1.1956 14.6.1957 stricken 1.1974
DE1023 Evans 99 Puget Sound Bridge, Seattle 8.4.1955 14.9.1955 14.6.1957 stricken 12.1973
DE1024 Bridget 100 Puget Sound Bridge, Seattle 19.9.1955 24.4.1956 24.10.1957 stricken 11.1973
DE1025 Bauer 5472 Bethlehem, San Francisco 1.12.1956 4.6.1957 22.11.1957 stricken 12.1973
DE1026 Hooper 5473 Bethlehem, San Francisco 4.1.1956 1.8.1957 16.4.1958 stricken 7.1973
DE1027 John Willis 510 New York SB, Camden 5.7.1955 4.2.1956 21.2.1957 stricken 7.1972
DE1028 Van Voorhis 511 New York SB, Camden 29.8.1955 28.7.1956 15.4.1957 stricken 7.1972
DE1029 Hartley 512 New York SB, Camden 31.10.1955 26.1.1957 30.7.1957 to Colombia 7.1972 (Boyacá)
DE1030 Joseph K. Taussig 513 New York SB, Camden 31.1.1956 9.3.1957 10.9.1957 stricken 7.1972


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1314
Displacement full, t

1877
Length, m

93.9 wl 96.0 oa
Breadth, m

11.2
Draught, m

3.60
No of shafts

1
Machinery

1 set De Laval geared steam turbines, 2 Foster Wheeler boilers
Power, h. p.

20000
Max speed, kts

27
Fuel, t

oil
Endurance, nm(kts)6000(12)
Armament

DE1006: 2 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 2 x 3 - 305 Squid Mk 3 ASWRL

DE1014, 1015, 1021 - 1030: 2 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 1 x 1 - 324 Weapon Alfa Mk 108 ASWRL
Electronic equipment

SPS-5, SPS-6C, 2x SPG-34 radars, SQS-4 sonar
Complement

173


Standard scale images


<i>Cromwell </i>1954
Cromwell 1954
<i>Hartley </i>1970
Hartley 1970
<i>Cromwell</i> 1970
Cromwell 1970
<i>Courtney </i>1963
Courtney 1963


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<i>Bridget</i> 1963
Bridget 1963


Project history

The first postwar destroyer escorts, these ships were initially conceived as upgraded versions of the wartime 22kt coastal escort (PC) with the additional firepower, sonar and speed required to counter the new generation of submarines. They were also designed with mobilization in mind, hence the single screw for reduced pressure on the gear-cutting industry.

They were fast and seaworthy, but were criticized as being underarmed.

Modernizations

1963-1967, Hammerberg, Lester, Evans, Bridget, Bauer, Hooper, John Willis, Van Voorhis, Hartley, Joseph K. Taussig: - 1 x 2 - 76/50, 1x SPG-34 radar, SQS-4 sonar; + 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, QH-50 DASH ASW drone helicopter, hangar and helicopter deck, SQS-23 sonar

mid-1960s, Dealey, Cromwell, Courtney: + 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, VDS sonar

1960s, all: + WLR-1 ECM suite

1967, Evans, Bridget, Bauer, Hooper: + 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3

late 1960s, Dealey: - 2 x 3 - 305 Squid ASWRL

late 1960s, Cromwell, Hammerberg, Courtney, Lester, Evans, Bridget, Bauer, Hooper, John Willis, Van Voorhis, Hartley, Joseph K. Taussig: - 1 x 1 - 324 Weapon Alfa Mk 108 ASWRL

Naval service

No significant events.