History | |
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United States | |
Name: | USS Booth |
Namesake: | Ensign Robert Sinclair Booth |
Builder: | Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newark, New Jersey |
Laid down: | 30 January 1943 |
Launched: | 21 June 1943 |
Commissioned: | 19 September 1943 |
Decommissioned: | 14 June 1946 |
Reclassified: | FF-170, 30 June 1975 |
Struck: | 15 July 1978 |
Fate: | Transferred to the Philippines, 15 December 1967 |
Philippines | |
Name: | BRP Datu Kalantiaw (PS-76) |
Commissioned: | 15 December 1967 |
Fate: | Lost during Typhoon Clara, 21 September 1981 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Cannon-class destroyer escort |
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Beam: | 36 ft 10 in (11.23 m) |
Draft: | 11 ft 8 in (3.56 m) |
Propulsion: | 4 × GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6,000 shp (4,474 kW), 2 screws |
Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
Range: | 10,800 nmi (20,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement: | 15 officers and 201 enlisted |
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USS Booth (DE-170) was a Cannon-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and then the Pacific Ocean and provided escort service against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys.
She was laid down on 30 January 1943 at Newark, New Jersey, by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co.; launched on 21 June 1943; named for Ensign Robert Sinclair Booth, who was assigned to the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, the first Washington, DC serviceman to die in the war; sponsored by Mrs. Annie L. Booth; towed by ocean-going tug AT-208 from her building yard to Norfolk, Virginia, via the Cape Cod Canal (24–26 June 1943), completed at the Norfolk Navy Yard; and commissioned there on 18 September 1943, Lt. Comdr. Donald W. Todd in command.
After fitting out, Booth put to sea from Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 14 October 1943 for her shakedown. The destroyer escort returned to Norfolk from the Bermuda area on 13 November and entered the navy yard for post-shakedown availability. From 1 December to the 17th, she was at Washington, D.C., taking part in experimental work at the Naval Research Laboratory at Bellevue and the Washington Navy Yard. During the latter part of the month, Booth helped to train prospective destroyer escort crews in the Hampton Roads area.