USS Barr (DE-576)
USS Barr (APD-39) shown after conversion to Auxiliary High Speed Transport |
|
| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Barr |
| Namesake: | Woodrow Wilson Barr |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Hingham, Massachusetts |
| Laid down: | 4 November 1943 |
| Launched: | 28 December 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 16 February 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 12 July 1946 |
| Reclassified: | APD-39, 23 October 1944 |
| Struck: | 1 June 1960 |
| Honors and awards: |
3 battle stars (World War II) |
| Fate: | Sunk as a target off Puerto Rico, 23 March 1963 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Buckley-class destroyer escort |
| Displacement: | 1,400 long tons (1,422 t) standard 1,740 long tons (1,768 t) full load |
| Length: | 306 ft (93 m) |
| Beam: | 37 ft (11 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) standard 11 ft 3 in (3.43 m) full load |
| Propulsion: | 2 × boilers General Electric turbo-electric drive 12,000 shp (8.9 MW) 2 × solid manganese-bronze 3,600 lb (1,600 kg) 3-bladed propellers, 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) diameter, 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) pitch 2 × rudders 359 tons fuel oil |
| Speed: | 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) |
| Range: | 3,700 nmi (6,900 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement: | 15 officers, 198 men |
| Armament: | • 3 × 3"/50 caliber guns • 1 × quad 1.1"/75 caliber gun • 8 × single 20 mm guns • 1 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes • 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar • 8 × K-gun depth charge projectors • 2 × depth charge tracks |
USS Barr (DE-576/APD-39), originally a Buckley-class destroyer escort, and later a Charles Lawrence-class of the United States Navy named for Pvt. Woodrow Wilson Barr of Keyser, West Virginia.
Barr was laid down on 5 November 1943 at Hingham, Massachusetts, by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co.; launched on 28 December 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Cora Dell Barr, Pfc. Barr's mother; and commissioned on 16 February 1944, Lieutenant Commander Henry H. Love in command.
Read more about USS Barr (DE-576): Awards
Famous quotes containing the word barr:
“Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.”
—Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919)