USS Bostwick (DE-103)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Bostwick (DE-103) |
| Namesake: | Lucius Allyn Bostwick |
| Builder: | Dravo Corporation, Wilmington, Delaware |
| Laid down: | 6 February 1943 |
| Launched: | 30 August 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 1 December 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 April 1946 |
| Struck: | 10 February 1949 |
| Fate: | Transferred to China, 14 December 1948 |
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 Taiwan
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| Name: | ROCS Tai Hu (DE-25) |
| Acquired: | 14 December 1948 |
| Out of service: | 1972 |
| Fate: | Stricken and scrapped, 1972 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Cannon-class destroyer escort |
| Displacement: | 1,240 tons |
| Length: | 306 ft (93 m) |
| Beam: | 36 ft 8 in (11.2 m) |
| Draft: | 8 ft 9 in (2.7 m) |
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| Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h) |
| Range: | 10,800 nm at 12 kn |
| Complement: | 15 officers, 201 enlisted |
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USS Bostwick (DE-103) was a Cannon class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and provided escort service against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys.
She was laid down on 6 February 1943 at Wilmington, Delaware, by the Dravo Corp.; launched on 30 August 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Fred D. Pierce; and commissioned on 1 December 1943, Lieutenant Commander John H. Church, Jr. in command.
Following shakedown training near Bermuda in late December 1943- early January 1944, the new destroyer escort joined the Atlantic Fleet to serve as school ship for training prospective crews of destroyer escorts still under construction.
On 15 February, Bostwick joined Thomas, Bronstein, Breeman, and Corry in an antisubmarine patrol that took the warships involved all the way across the Atlantic to Casablanca, Morocco. Built around Block Island and designated Task Group 21.16 (TG 21.16), the ships operated as a hunter-killer group in the U-boat-infested waters of the North Atlantic.
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