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DE- 328 USS FINCH

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 Consolidated Steel, Orange TX. on 29 June 1943, Launched 28 August 1943
Commissioned 13 December 1943, Decommissioned 4 October 1946
Loaned to USCG and Recommissioned WDE-428, 21 August 1951
Returned USN and Decommissioned 23 April 1954
Reclassified and converted DER-328, 21 October 1955
Recommissioned 17 September 1956, Decommissioned 1 October 1973
Stricken 1 February 1974
Fate: Sources differ on fate.
1.) Sold 16 August 1974 and broken up for scrap.
2.) Sunk as a target sometime after August 1974.

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Finch 58k Kaohsuing Taiwan, March 1966. © Richard Leonhardt

USS FINCH DE- 328 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Next Reunion
early September 2005 at Coure de Laine, Idaho
USS Finch DE-328, USCGC Finch WDE-428, USSFinch DER-328
Contact for ship history, reunions, crew list, both found and deceased.
Contact Name: Chuck Poreda
Address: none
Phone: none
E-mail: Chuck Poreda


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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