USS Weeden
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| Name: | USS Weeden |
| Namesake: | Carl A. Weeden |
| Builder: | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
| Laid down: | 18 August 1943 |
| Launched: | 27 October 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 19 February 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 9 May 1946 |
| In service: | 20 November 1946 |
| Out of service: | 26 May 1950 |
| Recommissioned: | 26 May 1950 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 February 1958 |
| Struck: | 30 June 1968 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping, 27 October 1969 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Buckley-class destroyer escort |
| Displacement: | 1,400 long tons (1,422 t) |
| Length: | 306 ft (93 m) |
| Beam: | 37 ft (11 m) |
| Draft: | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
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| Speed: | 23.6 knots (43.7 km/h; 27.2 mph) |
| Complement: | 213 officers and enlisted |
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USS Weeden (DE-797) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort in the United States Navy. She was named for Ensign Carl A. Weeden (1916–1941), who was killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Weeden was laid down on 18 August 1943 at Orange, Texas, by the Consolidated Steel Corporation; launched on 27 October 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Alice N. Weeden; and commissioned on 19 February 1944, with Lieutenant Commander C. F. Tillinghast, Jr., in command.
Named for Ensign Carl A. Weeden (1916–1941), who was killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor while serving on USS Arizona, the ship was launched on 27 October 1943 at the port of Orange, Texas, on the Sabine River and was christened by Carl Weeden's grandmother.
After a fitting-out period complicated by the necessity for repairs to her power plant, the destroyer escort departed Galveston, Texas, on 30 March 1944 for her shakedown cruise. Arriving at Bermuda on 5 April, she spent the rest of the month in training exercises; she left Bermuda on 1 May, and arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 6th. She completed voyage repairs on the 14th and moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she served for a month as target ship for the Atlantic Fleet Torpedo Squadron Training School. Near the end of June, she reported for duty in Escort Division 56.
On 4 July, she departed Boston in the screen of a convoy bound for Bizerte, Tunisia. The entire round-trip voyage, during which she escorted convoys in both directions, occupied her time until 18 August when she re-entered Boston. After training exercises at Casco Bay, Maine, she rendezvoused with another Bizerte-bound convoy near Norfolk, Virginia, in mid-September. About half way across the ocean, CortDiv 56 received orders to part company with the convoy and head for Plymouth, England, where they picked up a convoy of LST's bound for the United States. Arriving home on 25 October, she again completed voyage repairs and conducted anti-submarine warfare (ASW) exercises at Casco Bay. On 17 November, she joined another trans-atlantic convoy at Norfolk. That voyage took her via Gibraltar to Oran, Algeria, thence back to the United States at Boston where she arrived at the end of the last week in December. She completed repairs in the navy yard at Charlestown early in January 1945, and then moved to Norfolk where she served briefly as a school ship.
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