USS Koiner (DE-331)

USS Koiner (DE-331)

Career (US)

Namesake:	James Duval Koiner
Builder:	Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
Laid down:	26 July 1943
Launched:	5 October 1943
Commissioned:	27 December 1943
Decommissioned:	1968
Reclassified:	DER-331, 28 October 1954
Struck:	23 September 1968
Fate:	Sold for scrapping 3 September 1969
Career (USCG)
Name:	USCGC Koiner WDE-431
Commissioned:	20 June 1951
Decommissioned:	14 May 1954
Fate:	Returned to USN, 14 May 1954
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 Koiner (DE-331) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys. Post-war, she was loaned to the U.S. Coast Guard, and also reclassified as a radar picket ship.

She was named in honor of Lieutenant (j.g.) James Duval Koiner who was killed in action 13 November 1942 during the Battle of Guadalcanal. She was laid down 26 July 1943, by Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas; launched 5 September 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Mae H. Koiner, the mother of Lt. (j.g.) Koiner; and commissioned 27 December 1943, Lt. Cmdr. C. S. Judson, Jr., in command.