USS Stafford (DE-411)
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| Name: | Stafford |
| Namesake: | Richard Y. Stafford |
| Builder: | Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Texas |
| Laid down: | 29 November 1943 |
| Launched: | 11 January 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 19 April 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 16 May 1946 |
| Struck: | 15 March 1972 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping, 13 June 1973 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | John C. Butler-class destroyer escort |
| Displacement: | 1,350 tons |
| 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 knots (44 km/h) |
| Range: | 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 14 officers, 201 enlisted |
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USS Stafford (DE-411) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort in the United States Navy. She was named after Richard Y. Stafford (1916–1942), a United States Marine Corps Captain who died during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
Stafford's keel was laid down on 29 November 1943 at Houston, Texas, by Brown Shipbuilding. The ship was launched on 11 January 1944, sponsored by Miss Flora Stafford; and commissioned on 19 April 1944, with Lieutenant Commander V. H. Craig, Jr., USNR, in command.
Upon completion of fitting out in the Galveston-Houston area, Stafford sailed in company with La Prade on 7 May for Bermuda for shakedown training. Her shakedown cruise was interrupted from 17 to 19 May, when she rendezvoused with convoy GUS-38 and escorted Merrimack into Bermuda. She completed training and post-shakedown availability early in June and, on 9 June, joined Italian submarine Vortice off Bermuda to escort that Italian submarine north. Three days later, at the entrance to Casco Bay, Maine, USS YMS-169 relieved Stafford of her charge, and the destroyer escort stood into Boston Harbor and moored at Charlestown, Massachusetts. She underwent post-shakedown overhaul at the Boston Navy Yard from 13 to 22 June. The next day, she headed south and moored at Norfolk, Virginia, two days later.
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