USS Hemminger

HTMS Pin Klao off New York City on 6 August 1959
History
United States
Name	USS Hemminger
Namesake	Cyril Franklin Hemminger
Builder	Western Pipe and Steel Company, Los Angeles, California
Laid down	8 May 1943
Launched	12 September 1943
Commissioned	30 May 1944
Decommissioned	17 June 1946
Recommissioned	1 December 1950
Decommissioned	21 February 1958
Stricken	3 September 1974
Fate	Loaned to Thailand, 22 July 1959
Thailand
Name	HTMS Pin Klao (DE-1) (DE-3) (DE-413)
Namesake	Second King Pinklao
Acquired	22 July 1959
General characteristics
Class and type	Cannon-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 × single Mk.22 3"/50 caliber guns 3 × 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 Hemminger (DE-746) was a Cannon-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946 and from 1950 to 1958. In 1959, she was transferred to Thailand, where she serves as HTMS Pin Klao (Thai: เรือหลวงปิ่นเกล้า). She is the only Cannon-class destroyer escort still in service.