USS Bull (DE-693)

History
United States
Name	USS Bull (DE-693)
Namesake	Richard Bull
Ordered	9 October 1942
Builder	Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan
Laid down	15 December 1942 as Buckley-class destroyer escort
Launched	23 March 1943
Commissioned	12 August 1943
Reclassified	APD-78, 31 July 1944
Decommissioned	5 June 1947
Stricken	15 June 1966
Honors and awards	3 battle stars (World War II)
Fate	Sold to Taiwan, 12 July 1966
History
Taiwan
Name	ROCS Lu Shan (DE-36)
Acquired	12 July 1966
Reclassified	PF-36
Reclassified	PF-821
Reclassified	PF-836
Stricken	May 1995
Fate	Broken up for scrap
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	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
Speed	24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph)
Boats & landing craft carried	4 × LCVP landing craft (as APD)
Capacity	162 troops (as APD)
Complement	186
Armament	As DE : 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 8 × K-gun depth charge projectors 2 × depth charge tracks As APD : 1 × 5"/38 caliber gun 3 × twin 40 mm guns 6 × single 20 mm guns 2 × depth charge tracks

USS Bull (DE-693/APD-78) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort, later converted to a Charles Lawrence-class high speed transport. She was the second Navy ship named after Lieutenant (junior grade) Richard Bull (1914–1942), a naval aviator who was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Bull was the first of many destroyer escorts built at Defoe Shipbuilding Company, of Bay City, Michigan. The hull of Bull was constructed in the conventional fashion while the jigs and fittings were constructed in order to build the rest of the ships in a new upside-down method that Defoe pioneered. Bull was launched on 25 March 1943 at the Defoe yard; sponsored by Mrs. Ruth P. Bull, widow of Lt.(jg) Bull. She was commissioned 12 August 1943.