USS Finch (DE-328)

USCGC Finch (WDE-428)
History
United States
Namesake	Joseph W. Finch Jr.
Builder	Consolidated Steel, Orange, Texas
Laid down	29 June 1943
Launched	28 August 1943
Commissioned	13 December 1943
Decommissioned	4 October 1946
History
United States
Commissioned	21 August 1951 as (WDE-428)
Decommissioned	23 April 1954
History
United States
Commissioned	17 September 1956
Decommissioned	1 October 1973
Reclassified	as DER-328, 21 October 1955
Stricken	1 February 1974
Fate	Scrapped, 27 September 1974
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	2-shaft Fairbanks Morse diesels, 6,000 bhp
Speed	21 knots
Range	10,800 nautical miles (20,000 km) at 12 knots (14 mph; 22 km/h)
Complement	186
Armament	3 × 3 in (76 mm) guns 2 × 40 mm 8 × 20 mm 3 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 2 × depth charge tracks 8 × K-gun depth charge projectors 1 × hedge hog

USS Finch (DE-328) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort in the service of the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946 and from 1956 to 1969. From 1951 to 1954, she was loaned to the United States Coast Guard where she served as USCGC Finch (WDE-428). She was scrapped in 1974.