USS Buckley

History
United States
Name	Buckley
Namesake	John Daniel Buckley
Builder	Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard
Laid down	29 June 1942
Launched	9 January 1943
Commissioned	30 April 1943
Decommissioned	3 July 1946
Reclassified	DER-51, 26 April 1949 DE-51, 29 September 1954
Stricken	1 June 1968
Honors and awards	Navy Unit Commendation & 3 battle stars (World War II)
Fate	Sold for scrap, July 1969
General characteristics
Class and type	Buckley-class destroyer escort
Displacement	1,400 long tons (1,422 t) light 1,673 long tons (1,700 t) standard
Length	306 ft (93 m)
Beam	37 ft (11 m)
Draft	13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
Propulsion	Turbo-electric drive, 12,000 shp (8.9 MW) 2 shafts
Speed	24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph)
Complement	186
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 tube 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar 8 × K-gun depth charge projectors 2 × depth charge tracks

USS Buckley (DE-51) was the lead ship of her class of destroyer escorts in the service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946. After spending 23 years in reserve, she was scrapped in 1969.