USS England (DE-635)

USS England off San Francisco, 9 February 1944
History
United States
Name	USS England
Namesake	Ensign John C. England
Builder	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
Laid down	4 April 1943
Launched	26 September 1943
Commissioned	10 December 1943
Decommissioned	15 October 1945
Stricken	1 November 1945
Honors and awards	10 battle stars & Presidential Unit Citation (World War II)
Fate	Sold and broken up, 26 November 1946
General characteristics
Class and type	Buckley-class destroyer escort
Displacement	1,400 long tons (1,422 t) standard 1,740 long tons (1,768 t) full load
Length	306 ft (93 m)
Beam	37 ft (11 m)
Draft	9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) standard 11 ft 3 in (3.43 m) full load
Installed power	2 × boilers 12,000 shp (8.9 MW)
Propulsion	2 × propellers General Electric turbo-electric drive
Speed	23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph)
Range	3,700 nmi (6,900 km; 4,300 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	15 officers, 198 men
Armament	3 × 3"/50 caliber guns 1 × quad 1.1"/75 caliber gun 8 × single 20 mm guns 1 × triple 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar array 8 × K-gun depth charge projectors 2 × depth charge racks

USS England (DE-635), a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Ensign John C. England (1920–1941), who was killed in action aboard the battleship Oklahoma during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. Her sinking of six Japanese submarines in twelve days is a feat unparalleled in the history of anti-submarine warfare.