USS Amick

USS Amick
History
United States
Name	USS Amick (DE-168)
Namesake	Eugene Earle Amick
Builder	Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newark, New Jersey
Yard number	284
Laid down	7 January 1943
Launched	27 May 1943
Sponsored by	Mrs. Mary R. Amick
Commissioned	26 July 1943
Decommissioned	16 May 1947
Reclassified	FF-168, 6 January 1975
Stricken	15 June 1975
Fate	transferred to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), 14 June 1955
Acquired	returned from JMSDF, 1975
Fate	transferred to the Philippine Navy, September 1976
History
Japan
Name	JDS Asahi (DE-262)
Acquired	14 June 1955
Fate	Returned to the United States, 1975
History
Philippines
Name	RPS Datu Sikatuna (PS-77)
Acquired	13 September 1976
Commissioned	27 February 1980
Decommissioned	1989
Renamed	BRP Datu Sikatuna (PF-5)
Fate	Scrapped, 1989
General characteristics
Class and type	Cannon-class destroyer escort Asahi-class destroyer escort
Displacement	1,240 long tons (1,260 t) standard 1,620 long tons (1,646 t) full
Length	306 ft (93 m) o/a 300 ft (91 m) w/l
Beam	36 ft 10 in (11.23 m)
Draft	11 ft 8 in (3.56 m)
Propulsion	4 × GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6,000 shp (4,474 kW), 2 screws
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Range	10,800 nmi (20,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	15 officers and 201 enlisted
Armament	3 × Mk.22 3"/50 caliber guns 1 × twin 40 mm Mk.1 AA gun 8 × 20 mm Mk.4 AA guns 3 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 1 × Hedgehog Mk.10 anti-submarine mortar (144 rounds) 8 × Mk.6 depth charge projectors 2 × Mk.9 depth charge tracks

USS Amick (DE-168) was a Cannon-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and then the Pacific Ocean and provided escort service against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys.

She was laid down on 30 November 1942 by the Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Newark, New Jersey; launched on 27 May 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Mary R. Amick, widow of Ens. Eugene Amick (1919–1942), who died at Guadalcanal and for whom the ship was named; and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 26 July 1943.