USS Liddle (DE-206)

USS Liddle (DE-206) on 3 May 1944
History
United States
Name	USS Liddle
Namesake	William P. Liddle
Ordered	1942
Builder	Charleston Navy Yard
Laid down	8 June 1943
Launched	9 August 1943
Commissioned	6 December 1943
Decommissioned	18 June 1946
Reclassified	APD-60, 5 July 1944
Recommissioned	27 October 1950
Decommissioned	2 February 1959
Recommissioned	29 November 1961
Decommissioned	18 March 1967
Stricken	5 April 1967
Honors and awards	4 battle stars (World War II)
Fate	Sold for scrap, 25 June 1967
General characteristics
Class and type	Buckley-class destroyer escort
Displacement	1,400 long tons (1,422 t) light 1,740 long tons (1,768 t) standard
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
Propulsion	2 × boilers General Electric turbo-electric drive 12,000 shp (8.9 MW) 2 × solid manganese-bronze 3,600 lb (1,600 kg) 3-bladed propellers, 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) diameter, 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) pitch 2 × rudders 359 tons fuel oil
Speed	23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph)
Range	3,700 nmi (6,900 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 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 8 × K-gun depth charge projectors 2 × depth charge tracks

USS Liddle (DE-206/APD-60), a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, in service from 1943 to 1946. She was recommissioned from 1950 to 1959 and from 1961 to 1967, before being sold for scrap.