USS Bates (DE-68)
| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Bates |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Hingham, Massachusetts |
| Launched: | 6 June 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 13 September 1943 |
| Reclassified: | APD-47, 31 July 1944 |
| Honors and awards: |
3 battle stars (World War II) |
| Fate: | Sunk by Kamikazes off Okinawa, 25 May 1945 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Buckley-class destroyer escort |
| Displacement: | 1,400 long tons (1,422 t) light 1,673 long tons (1,700 t) standard |
| 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: | Turbo-electric drive, 12,000 shp (8.9 MW) |
| Speed: | 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) |
| Complement: | 15 officers, 198 men |
| Armament: | • 3 × single 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 Bates (DE-68/APD-47), a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Ensign Edward M. Bates (19 September 1919 – 7 December 1941), who was killed on board USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Bates was launched on 6 June 1943 at the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., Hingham, Massachusetts; sponsored by Mrs. Elizabeth Mason Bates, mother of Ensign Bates; and commissioned on 12 September 1943, with Lieutenant Commander E. H. Maher, USNR in command.
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