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DE- 386 USS SAVAGE

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 on 30 April 1943, Launched 15 July 1943
Commissioned 29 October 1943, Decommissioned 13 June 1946
Reclassified and converted DER-386, 28 October 1954
Recommissioned 18 February 1955, Decommissioned 17 October 1969
Stricken 1 June 1975
Fate: Sunk as target off California on 25 October 1982

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Savage 62k Moored, Pier 91 Seattle WA, sometime between 1954 and 1957 Mel Kowal, Lt. (USNR) Ret.
Savage 112k unknown USN.

USS SAVAGE DE- 386 History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry (not presently available)
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information


Contact Name: Raymond C. Zachgo
Address: 181 Denny Lane / Winchester VA 22603
Phone: (540) 662-6470
E-mail:Raymond Zachgo


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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