USS Pope (DE-134)

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USS Pope (DE-134)
History
United States
Namesake	John Pope
Builder	Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
Laid down	14 July 1942
Launched	12 January 1943
Commissioned	25 June 1943
Decommissioned	17 May 1946
Stricken	2 January 1971
Honours and awards	3 Battle Stars plus the Presidential Unit Citation
Fate	Sold 22 August 1973, scrapped
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 Fairbanks-Morse diesel engines, 4 diesel-generators, 6,000 ship (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 Pope (DE-134) 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.

She was named after commodore John Pope, born 17 December 1798 in Sandwich, Massachusetts. This Ship also commemorated the destroyer USS Pope (DD-225) that had been sunk in the Battle of the Java Sea in 1942. She was laid down by Consolidated Steel Co., Orange, Texas, 14 July 1942; launched 12 January 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Rae W. Fabens, and commissioned 25 June 1943.