Edsall-class
USS Edsall
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Edsall class |
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| Preceded by: | Cannon class |
| Succeeded by: | Rudderow class |
| Planned: | 85 |
| Completed: | 85 |
| Active: | 1 |
| Lost: | 5 |
| Retired: | 84 |
| Scrapped: | 75 |
| Preserved: | 1 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Destroyer escort |
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| Length: | 306 ft (93.3 m) |
| Beam: | 36 ft 7 in (11.2 m) |
| Draft: | 10 ft 5 in (3.2 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft Fairbanks-Morse geared diesel engines, 6,000 bhp (4,500 kW) |
| Speed: | 21 kn (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Range: | 10,800 nmi (20,000 km; 12,400 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement: | 186 |
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The Edsall-class destroyer escorts were destroyer escorts built primarily for ocean anti-submarine escort service during World War II. The lead ship, USS Edsall, was commissioned on 10 April 1943 at Orange, Texas. The class was also known as the FMR type from their Fairbanks-Morse reduction-geared diesel drive, with a type of engine used in the submarines of the time. The FMR's substitution for a diesel-electric power plant was the essential difference from the predecessor Cannon ("DET") class. This was the only World War II destroyer escort class in which all the ships originally ordered were completed as United States Navy destroyer escorts. Destroyer escorts were regular companions escorting the vulnerable cargo ships. Late in the war, plans were made to replace the 3-inch (76 mm) guns with 5-inch (127 mm) guns but only Camp was refitted (after a collision). In total, all 85 were completed by three shipbuilding companies: Beth Staten Island (47), Consolidated Orange (18), and Houston (20). Most were en route to the Pacific Theater when Japan surrendered. One of the ships participated in Operation Dragoon and two were attacked by German guided missiles
A total of 85 Edsall-class destroyer escorts were built.
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