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CLASS: EDSALL
Type: FMR (geared diesel, Fairbanks-Morse reverse gear drive, 3" guns)
9 November 1942: Keel laid by the Brown Shipbuilding Corp., Houston, Tex.
19 January 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Miles P. Refo, Jr.
6 August 1943: Commissioned, Lcdr. W. B. Porter in command
10 September 1946: Decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla.
1 June 1951: Reactivation and conversion to DER commenced at the Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, S.C.
December 1951: Reclassified DER 244
6 June 1952: Recommissioned at the Charleston Naval Shipyard, Lcdr. John P. Sullivan in command
19 July 1952: Assigned to Commander Destroyer Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, at Newport, R.I. as a unit of Escort Squadron Sixteen
20 June 1960: Decommissioned
1 August 1974: Stricken from the NVR
15 February 1976: Sunk as a target off Puerto Rico
Displacement: 1200 tons (light), 1590 tons (full)
Length: 300' (wl), 306' (oa)
Beam: 36' 10" (extreme)
Draft: 10' 5" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 4 Fairbanks-Morse Mod. 38d81/8 geared diesel engines, 4 diesel-generators, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 21 kts
Range: 9,100 nm @ 12 knots
Armament: 3 x 3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1 twin 40mm Mk1 AA, 8 x 20mm Mk 4 AA, 3 x 21" Mk15 TT (3x1), 1 Hedgehog Projector Mk10 (144 rounds), 8 Mk6 depth charge projectors, 2 Mk9 depth charge tracks
Complement: 8 / 201
Otterstetter was laid down 9 November 1942 by Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Tex.; launched 19 January 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Miles P. Refo, Jr.; commissioned 6 August 1943, Lt. Comdr. W. B. Porter, in command. Otterstetter sailed on her shakedown cruise along the East Coast of the
Otterstetter seen during patrol mission. date and location unknown.
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