USS Cecil J. Doyle (DE-368)
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| Name: | Cecil J. Doyle |
| Namesake: | Cecil J. Doyle |
| Builder: | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
| Laid down: | 12 May 1944 |
| Launched: | 1 July 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 16 October 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 2 July 1946 |
| Struck: | 1 July 1967 |
| Fate: | Sunk as target, 2 December 1967 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | John C. Butler-class destroyer escort |
| Displacement: | 1,350 long tons (1,370 t) |
| 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 kn (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 Cecil J. Doyle (DE-368) was a United States Navy John C. Butler-class destroyer escort. She was named for United States Marine Corps aviator 1st Lieutenant Cecil J. Doyle, a posthumous recipient of the Navy Cross for heroism during 18 to 25 October 1942 in the Solomon Islands campaign.
The destroyer escort was launched on 1 July 1944 at Consolidated Steel Corporation, in Orange, Texas, sponsored by Mrs. O. P. Doyle. Cecil J. Doyle was commissioned on 16 October 1944, with Lieutenant Commander D. S. Crocker, USNR, in command.
Cecil J. Doyle carried out her first mission while still in shakedown, when she cruised on an air-sea rescue station during the flight of Government officials to the Yalta Conference. On 30 January 1945, she rendezvoused with HMS Ranee, and guarded the escort carrier through the Panama Canal and north to San Diego, California. Cecil J. Doyle continued on to Pearl Harbor and Eniwetok, where she arrived on 28 March to join the Marshalls-Gilbert Patrol and Escort Group. Her escort duties took her to Guam, and Ulithi, where on 30 April she was transferred to the Carolines Surface Patrol and Escort Group. On 2 May, Cecil J. Doyle's commanding officer became Commander, Screen, Peleliu, protecting the great anchorage in Kossol Roads.
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