USS Rudderow (DE-224)
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| Name: | USS Rudderow |
| Namesake: | Thomas Wright Rudderow |
| Builder: | Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Laid down: | 15 July 1943 |
| Launched: | 14 October 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 14 May 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 January 1947 |
| Struck: | 1 November 1969 |
| Honors and awards: |
2 battle stars (World War II) |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, October 1970 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Rudderow-class destroyer escort |
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| Length: | 306 ft (93 m) |
| Beam: | 37 ft (11 m) |
| Draft: | 13 ft 9 in (4.19 m) |
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| Speed: | 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph) |
| Complement: | 221 |
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USS Rudderow (DE-224) was a United States Navy destroyer escort named after Thomas Wright Rudderow. Lead ship of her class, she was laid down on 15 July 1943 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, launched on 14 October 1943 and commissioned on 15 May 1944, Lieutenant-Commander Malcolm W. Greenough, USNR, commanding.
She completed her shakedown trials off Bermuda and throughout the summer of 1944 participated in submarine hunter-killer patrols and the escort of convoys along the East Coast of the United States. Departing Staten Island on 14 October 1944, she sailed with her division (CortDiv 74) for the Pacific, passing through the Panama Canal on 23 October and joining the 7th Fleet at Humboldt Bay, New Guinea on 21 November.
After coastal escort duties during December, on 8 January 1945 she set sail for Luzon and on 21 January saw her convoy of landing craft safely into Lingayen Gulf. Between then and 7 February she patrolled the Lingayen anti-submarine screen before escorting landing craft to Subic Bay and steaming back to Lingayen Gulf to cover the retirement of LSTs, LCTs, and a fleet oiler to Leyte. A week later she steamed into the Mindanao Sea to assist the torpedoed destroyer Renshaw (DD-499) and escort her to San Pedro Bay.
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