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24)DE 244 OTTERSTETTER



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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 United States and on 14 November joined a convoy and steamed as escort from Norfolk to Casablanca, French Morocco. She arrived there on 2 December 1943 and returned to New York on Christmas Day. She made a convoy escort voyage to Casablanca in February 1944.



Otterstetter seen during patrol mission. date and location unknown.

Photo. www.navsource.org. By Wayne Craig / John Chiquoine


 

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