History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Falgout |
Namesake | George Irvin Falgout (1922-1942), Navy Cross recipient |
Builder | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
Laid down | 24 May 1943 |
Launched | 24 July 1943 |
Commissioned | 15 November 1943 |
Decommissioned | 10 October 1969 |
Reclassified | DER-324, 28 October 1954 |
Stricken | 1 June 1975 |
Fate | Sunk as target off California on 12 January 1977 |
United States | |
Name | USCGC Falgout (WDE-424) |
Commissioned | 24 August 1951 |
Decommissioned | 21 May 1954 |
Fate | Returned to USN, 21 May 1954 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Edsall-class destroyer escort |
Displacement |
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Length | 306 feet (93.27 m) |
Beam | 36.58 feet (11.15 m) |
Draft | 10.42 full load feet (3.18 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h) |
Range |
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Complement | 8 officers, 201 enlisted |
Armament |
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USS Falgout (DE-/DER-324) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys. Post-war, she was borrowed by the United States Coast Guard and also served as a radar picket ship on the Distant Early Warning Line. She was reclassified DER-324 on 28 October 1954.