USS Brough (DE-148)


Career (US)
Namesake: David Atkins Brough
Builder: Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
Laid down: 22 January 1943
Launched: 10 April 1943
Commissioned: 18 September 1943 to 22 March 1946
7 September 1951 to June 1965
Struck: 1 November 1965
Motto: Frontier Guardian, In Peace, In War
Fate: Sold for scrap in 1967
General characteristics
Class & type: Edsall-class destroyer escort
Displacement: 1,253 tons standard
1,590 tons full load
Length: 306 feet (93.27 m)
Beam: 36.58 feet (11.15 m)
Draft: 10.42 full load feet (3.18 m)
Propulsion: 4 FM diesel engines,
4 diesel-generators,
6,000 shp (4.5 MW),
2 screws
Speed: 21 knots (39 km/h)
Range: 9,100 nmi. at 12 knots
(17,000 km at 22 km/h)
Complement: 8 officers, 201 enlisted
Armament:
  • 3 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 guns (3 × 1)
  • 2 × 40 mm AA guns (1 × 2)
  • 8 × 20 mm AA guns (8 × 1)
  • 3 × 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes (1 × 3)
  • 8 × depth charge projectors
  • 1 × depth charge projector (hedgehog)
  • 2 × depth charge tracks

USS Brough (DE-148) was an Edsall class destroyer escort, the first United States Navy ship so named. This ship was named for Lieutenant Junior Grade David Atkins Brough (15 June 1914 – 1942), a Naval Aviator who was awarded the Air Medal posthumously for his actions during the battles of Kiska and Attu.

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