USS Kalk (DD-611)
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| Name: | USS Kalk (DD-611) |
| Namesake: | Stanton Frederick Kalk |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California |
| Laid down: | 30 June 1941 |
| Launched: | 18 July 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 17 October 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | 3 May 1946 |
| Struck: | June 1968 |
| Fate: | sunk as a target in March 1969 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Benson-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,620 tons |
| Length: | 348 ft 4 in (106.17 m) |
| Beam: | 36 ft 1 in (11.00 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft 9 in (3.58 m) |
| Speed: | 37.5 knots (69.5 km/h) |
| Complement: | 258 |
| Armament: | 4 x 5" (127 mm), 4 x 40mm., 7 x 20mm., 5 x 21" (533 mm) tt, 6 dcp., 2 dct. |
USS Kalk (DD-611) was a Benson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the second ship named for Lieutenant Stanton Frederick Kalk.
Kalk was laid down 30 June 1941 by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, San Francisco, California; launched 18 July 1942; sponsored by Mrs. Flora Stanton Kalk, mother of Lieutenant Kalk; and commissioned 17 October, Lieutenant Commander C. T. Singleton, Jr., in command.
Following shakedown along the California coast, Kalk departed San Francisco 28 December for patrol and escort duty in the Aleutian Islands. Steaming via Dutch Harbor, she arrived Adak 9 January and patrolled from Adak to Amchitka Island. On the 16th, she embarked 185 survivors of Arthur Middleton and Worden which had foundered in an Arctic storm. She transported them to Adak, then continued intermittent patrols until she sailed 26 February for home, arriving San Francisco 4 March.
After repairs, Kalk steamed from San Francisco 7 April and proceeded via the Panama Canal to New York, where she arrived a fortnight later for Atlantic convoy escort duty. She cleared New York 28 April, and the next day joined a 35-ship convoy, UGF-8, headed for Oran, Algeria. Arriving 12 May, she searched for a suspected U-boat. The destroyer departed Casablanca, French Morocco, 19 May escorting a westbound convoy. Arriving New York 31 May, she sailed 13 June via Casco Bay, Maine, and NS Argentia, Newfoundland, to Norfolk for further convoy-escort duty. From 27 June to 6 December she escorted three convoys between the United States and North Africa. After overhaul at New York and Boston, she arrived Norfolk 29 December and then sailed 2 January 1944 for the Pacific.
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