USS Weeden

Weeden on 19 January 1945
History
United States
Name	USS Weeden
Namesake	Carl A. Weeden
Builder	Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
Laid down	18 August 1943
Launched	27 October 1943
Commissioned	19 February 1944
Decommissioned	9 May 1946
In service	20 November 1946
Out of service	26 May 1950
Recommissioned	26 May 1950
Decommissioned	26 February 1958
Stricken	30 June 1968
Fate	Sold for scrapping, 27 October 1969
General characteristics
Class and type	Buckley-class destroyer escort
Displacement	1,400 long tons (1,422 t)
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	23.6 knots (43.7 km/h; 27.2 mph)
Complement	213 officers and enlisted
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 tubes 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar 8 × K-gun depth charge projectors 2 × depth charge tracks

USS Weeden (DE-797) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946 and from 1950 to 1958. She was scrapped in 1969.