USS Lowe (DE-325)

USS Lowe (DE-325)


Career (US)
Namesake: Harry James Lowe
Builder: Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
Laid down: 24 May 1943
Launched: 28 July 1943
Commissioned: 22 November 1943
Decommissioned: 20 September 1968
Reclassified: DER-325, 28 October 1954
Struck: 23 September 1968
Fate: Sold for scrapping 3 September 1969
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 Lowe (DE-325) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean the Pacific Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys. Post-war she was converted and served the Navy as a weather ship and then as a radar picket ship.

She was named in honor of Gunner’s Mate Third Class Harry James Lowe, Jr., who was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously for his brave actions in the Solomon Islands. The ship was laid down by Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Texas, 24 May 1943; launched 28 July 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Harry J. Lowe, mother; and commissioned 22 November 1943, Comdr. Reginald H. French, USCG, in command.

Read more about USS Lowe (DE-325):  World War II North Atlantic Operations, Sinking of German Submarine U-866, Recommissioned As A Weather Ship, Recommissioned As A Radar Picket Ship, Vietnam Crisis Operations, Final Decommissioning

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