USS Bronstein (DE-189)

History
United States
Name:	USS Bronstein
Namesake:	Ben Richard Bronstein
Builder:	Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newark, New Jersey
Laid down:	26 August 1943
Launched:	14 November 1943
Commissioned:	13 December 1943
Decommissioned:	5 November 1945
Struck:	14 May 1952
Honors and awards:	3 battle stars (World War II)
Fate:	Sold to Uruguay, 3 May 1952
Uruguay
Name:	ROU Artigas (DE-2)
Acquired:	3 May 1952
Fate:	Broken up, 1988
General characteristics
Class and type:	Cannon-class destroyer escort
Displacement:	1,240 long tons (1,260 t) standard 1,620 long tons (1,646 t) full
Length:	306 ft (93 m) o/a 300 ft (91 m) w/l
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
Armament:	3 × single Mk.22 3"/50 caliber guns 1 × twin 40 mm Mk.1 AA gun 8 × 20 mm Mk.4 AA guns 3 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 1 × Hedgehog Mk.10 anti-submarine mortar (144 rounds) 8 × Mk.6 depth charge projectors 2 × Mk.9 depth charge tracks

USS Bronstein (DE-189) 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 returned home at war's end with a three battle stars. She was named in honor of Ben Richard Bronstein, Assistant Surgeon, who was killed in action 28 February 1942 when Jacob Jones (DD-130) was sunk by an enemy submarine off Cape May, New Jersey.

The ship was laid down on 26 August 1943 at Kearny, New Jersey, by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Port Newark, New Jersey; launched on 14 November 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Dina Bronstein Kurtz, the mother of Lt.(jg.) Bronstein; and commissioned on 13 December 1943, Lt. Sheldon H. Kinney in command.

Following shakedown exercises off Bermuda in January 1944, the destroyer escort sailed to Norfolk, Virginia, where she was assigned to Task Group (TG) 21.16, an anti-submarine hunter-killer group composed of carrier Block Island (CVE-21), destroyer Corry (DD-463), and destroyer escorts Bronstein, Thomas (DE-102), Breeman (DE-104), and Bostwick (DE-103). On 16 February, the group left Norfolk for patrol in the North Atlantic.

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