USS Falgout

History
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	1,253 tons standard 1,590 tons full load
Length	306 feet (93.27 m)
Beam	36.58 feet (11.15 m)
Draft	10.42 full load feet (3.18 m)
Propulsion	4 FM diesel engines, 4 diesel-generators, 6,000 shp (4.5 MW), 2 screws
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h)
Range	9,100 nmi. at 12 knots (17,000 km at 22 km/h)
Complement	8 officers, 201 enlisted
Armament	3 × single 3 in (76 mm)/50 guns 1 × twin 40 mm AA guns 8 × single 20 mm AA guns 1 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 8 × depth charge projectors 1 × depth charge projector (hedgehog) 2 × depth charge tracks

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.