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DE- 391 USS CHAMBERS

CLASS: Edsall TYPE: FMR (geared diesel, Fairbanks-Morse reverse gear drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1,200 tons (std) 1,590 tons (full) Dimensions: 306' (oa), 300' (wl) x 36' 10" x 12' 3" (max)
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
Machinery: 4 Fairbanks-Morse Mod. 38d81/8 geared diesel engines, 4 diesel-generators, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 21 knots Range: 9,100 nm @ 12 knots Crew: 8 / 201

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Brown Shipbuilding, Houston TX 28 May 1943, Launched 17 August 1943
Commissioned 22 November 1943, Decommissioned 22 April 1946
Loaned to USCG and Recommissioned WDE-491, 11 June 1952
Returned USN and Decommissioned 30 July 1954
Reclassified and converted DER-391, 28 October 1954
Recommissioned 1 June 1955, Decommissioned 20 June 1960
Stricken 1 March 1975
Fate: Sold for scrapping 24 September 1975

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Chambers 102k Commissioning into USCG as WDE-491, 11 June 1952 USGC
Chambers 116k Lisbon, Portugal, 2 April 1958 Karl A. Emrich
RMC, USN, Ret.

USS CHAMBERS DE- 391 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None Located
Contact Name: None
Address: None
Phone: None
E-mail: None


Note About Contacts.

The contact listed, Was the contact at the time for this ship when located. If another person now is the contact, E-mail me and I will update this entry. These contacts are compiled from various sources over a long period of time and may or may not be correct. Every effort has been made to list the newest contact if more than one contact was found.


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