USS Alvin C. Cockrell (DE-366)
| Career (US) | |
|---|---|
| Namesake: | Alvin C. Cockrell |
| Builder: | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
| Laid down: | 1 May 1944 |
| Launched: | 8 August 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 7 October 1944 to 2 July 1946 27 June 1951 to 17 January 1959 |
| In service: | 1 August 1962 |
| Out of service: | 20 September 1968 |
| Struck: | 23 September 1968 |
| Fate: | sunk as target off California 19 September 1969 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | John C. Butler-class destroyer escort |
| Displacement: | 1,350 tons |
| Length: | 306 ft (93 m) |
| Beam: | 36 ft 8 in (11 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 5 in (3 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 boilers, 2 geared turbine engines, 12,000 shp; 2 propellers |
| Speed: | 24 knots (44 km/h) |
| Range: | 6,000 nmi. (12,000 km) @ 12 kt |
| Complement: | 14 officers, 201 enlisted |
| Armament: | 2 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 guns (2×1) 4 × 40 mm AA guns (2×2) 10 × 20 mm AA guns (10×1) 3 × 21 in. torpedo tubes (1×3) 8 × depth charge projectors 1 × depth charge projector (hedgehog) 2 × depth charge tracks |
USS Alvin C. Cockrell (DE-366) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. Decommissioned several times, in addition to serving in the World War, she also served during the Berlin Crisis of 1961.
She was laid down on 1 May 1944 at Orange, Texas, by the Consolidated Steel Corp.; launched on 27 June 1944; sponsored by Mrs. James A. Perkins, the sister of the late 1st Lt. Cockrell; and commissioned on 7 August 1944 at her builder's yard, Lt. Comdr. Merrill M. Sanford, USNR, in command.
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