USS Tabberer (DE-418)
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 United States
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| Name: | Tabberer |
| Laid down: | 12 January 1944 |
| Launched: | 18 February 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 23 May 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 24 April 1946 |
| In service: | 7 April 1951 |
| Out of service: | May 1960 |
| Struck: | 1 July 1972 |
| Fate: | sold for scrapping 3 October 1973 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | John C. Butler-class destroyer escort |
| Displacement: | 1,350/1,745 tons |
| Length: | 306 ft (93 m) (oa) |
| Beam: | 36 ft 10 in (11.23 m) |
| Draft: | 13 ft 4 in (4.06 m) (max) |
| Propulsion: | 2 boilers, 2 geared turbine engines, 12,000 shp (8,900 kW), 2 screws |
| 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 Tabberer (DE-418) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. The primary purpose of the destroyer escort was to escort and protect ships in convoy, in addition to other tasks as assigned, such as patrol or radar picket. Post-war, after active participation in the Pacific War, her crew returned home with four battle stars and a Navy Unit Commendation to their credit.
She was named in honor of lieutenant (junior grade) Charles Arthur Tabberer who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, posthumously, for his heroic efforts in helping to cause the Japanese 26th Air Flotilla—which had opposed the American Guadalcanal invasion force—to turn back.
Tabberer (DE-418)'s keel was laid down at Houston, Texas on 12 January 1944 by the Brown Shipbuilding Co. The ship was launched on 18 February 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Mary M. Tabberer, and commissioned on 23 May 1944, Lt. Comdr. Henry Lee Plage, USNR, in command.
In December 1944, Tabberer lost her mast and radio antennas riding out Typhoon Cobra, which killed 790 sailors (more than were lost at the battles of Midway and Coral Sea combined). Though damaged and unable to radio for help, she was first on the scene to recover 55 of only 93 total rescued from three destroyers which capsized in the heavy seas. Captain Henry Lee Plage earned the Legion of Merit, while the entire crew earned the Navy's Unit Commendation Ribbon.
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