USS Breeman (DE-104)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Breeman (DE-104) |
| Namesake: | George Breeman |
| Builder: | Dravo Corporation, Wilmington, Delaware |
| Laid down: | 20 March 1943 |
| Launched: | 4 September 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 12 December 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 April 1946 |
| Struck: | 22 December 1948 |
| Fate: | Transferred to China 29 October 1948 |
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 Taiwan
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| Name: | ROCS T'ai Chong (DE-24) |
| Acquired: | 29 October 1948 |
| Out of service: | December 1972 |
| Fate: | Stricken and scrapped, December 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 nmi. at 12 knots |
| Complement: | 15 officers, 201 enlisted |
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USS Breeman (DE-104) was a Cannon class destroyer escort in the United States Navy. The ship was named for George Breeman, a Navy seaman who was awarded the Medal of Honor for extraordinary heroism during a turret explosion on USS Kearsarge (BB-5).
Breeman (DE-104) was laid down on 20 March 1943 at the Dravo Corporation shipyard in Wilmington, Delaware; launched on 4 September 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Marie Breeman Schellgell, niece of the late Chief Turret Captain Breeman; completed at the Norfolk Navy Yard; and commissioned there on 12 December 1943, with Lieutenant Commander Edward N. W. Hunter, USNR, in command.
The destroyer escort spent the remainder of 1943 and the first week in 1944 outfitting at Norfolk. On 11 January 1944, she embarked upon her shakedown cruise to the waters around Bermuda. She completed the training period on 1 February and returned to Norfolk on 5 February for post-shakedown repairs. On 16 February, Breeman steamed out of Chesapeake Bay as an element of Escort Division (CortDiv) 48 which itself made up a part of the screen of Task Group (TG) 21.16, a hunter-killer group built around USS Block Island. After fueling off Fayal in the Azores, the task group headed north to provide antisubmarine support for transatlantic convoys. Though Breeman appears to have taken no direct part in the attacks, the task group accounted for at least two U-boats before entering Casablanca on 8 March. The destroyer escort put to sea with the Block Island task group again on 12 March. On the 19th, planes from Block Island sank German submarine U-1059, and Breeman assisted in the rescue of the U-boat's survivors.
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