USS Alvin C. Cockrell (DE-366)
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| Name: | Alvin C. Cockrell |
| 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 |
| Decommissioned: | 2 July 1946 |
| Recommissioned: | 27 June 1951 |
| Decommissioned: | 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 and type: | John C. Butler-class destroyer escort |
| Displacement: | 1,350 tons |
| Length: | 306 ft (93 m) |
| Beam: | 36 ft 8 in (11.18 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 5 in (2.87 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 boilers, 2 geared turbine engines, 12,000 shp (8,900 kW); 2 propellers |
| Speed: | 24 knots (44 km/h) |
| Range: | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 14 officers, 201 enlisted |
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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.
The ship's keel was laid down on 1 May 1944 at Orange, Texas, by the Consolidated Steel Corp.. Alvin C. Cockrell was launched on 27 June 1944, sponsored by Mrs. James A. Perkins, the sister of the late 1st Lt. Cockrell. The destroyer escort was commissioned on 7 August 1944 at her builder's yard, Lt. Comdr. Merrill M. Sanford, USNR, in command.
After initial fitting out alongside the City Docks at Orange, Alvin C. Cockrell shifted to Galveston, Texas, arriving on 14 October, and continued fitting out at the Todd-Galveston Shipbuilding, Inc., yard. Completing these preparations for service on 25 October, she sailed for Bermuda that afternoon in company with her sister ship French, for shakedown training. Arriving at noon on the last day of October, the new destroyer escort carried out her shakedown training out of Bermuda until 29 November, after which time she sailed for Boston Navy Yard and post-shakedown availability. Underway from Boston, Massachusetts, on 10 December, Alvin C. Cockrell arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, the following day.
On 15 December, Alvin C. Cockrell sailed from Norfolk, and escorted the attack transport Thomas Jefferson to the Panama Canal Zone, arriving there on 20 December. Transiting the canal the same day, the destroyer escort then proceeded independently to San Diego, California, arriving there three days after Christmas of 1944. She sailed thence for the Hawaiian Islands, reaching Pearl Harbor on the afternoon of 7 January 1945.
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