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DE- 634 USS WHITEHURST

CLASS: Buckley TYPE: TE (turbine-electric drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1,400 tons (std) 1,740 tons (full) Dimensions: 306' (oa), 300' (wl) x 36' 9" x 13' 6" (max)
Armament: 3 x 3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1 x 1.1"/75 Mk2 quad AA (4x1), 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: 2 "D" Express boilers, G.E. turbines with electric drive, 12000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 knots Range: 4,940 nm @ 12 knots Crew: 15 / 198

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bethlehem Steel Co., San Francisco CA on 21 March 1943
Launched 5 September 1943, Commissioned 19 November 1943
Decommissioned 27 November 1946, Recommissioned 1 September 1950
June-July 1957 Starred in the 20th Century-Fox movie "The Enemy Below"
Assigned to NRT, 13th Naval District at Seattle WA September 1957
Decommissioned 6 December 1958, placed "in service" as a unit of the Select Reserve ASW Force
Recommissioned 2 October 1961 for the Berlin Crisis, Decommissioned and placed "in service" 1 August 1962
Out Of Service 12 July 1969, Stricken 12 July 1969.
Fate: Sunk as target 28 April 1971 by USS Trigger (SS-564)

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USS WHITEHURST DE- 634 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name: Max Crow
Address: 10817 Jack Fleck Dr. / El Paso TX 79935
Phone: none
E-mail: Max Crow


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.


Additional Resources
Destroyer Escort Sailors Association

Max Crow's Whitehurst Site

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