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Name | USS Bray |
Namesake | Raymond Leon Bray |
Ordered | 1942 |
Builder | Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan |
Laid down | January 1944 |
Launched | 15 April 1944 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Mattie M. Bray |
Commissioned | 4 September 1944 |
Reclassified | APD-139, 16 July 1945 |
Decommissioned | 10 May 1946 |
Stricken | 1 June 1960 |
Fate | Sunk as target, 27 March 1963 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Crosley-class high speed transport |
Displacement |
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Length | 306 ft (93 m) |
Beam | 37 ft (11 m) |
Draft | 13 ft 8 in (4.17 m) |
Propulsion | Turbo-electric drive, 12,000 hp (8.9 MW) |
Speed | 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph) |
Complement | 221 |
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USS Bray (DE-709) was a Rudderow-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. She was sunk as a target in 1963.