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DE- 679 USS GREENWOOD

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, Quincy on 29 June 1943, Launched 21 August 1943.
Commissioned 25 September 1943
Assigned to NRT, 6th Naval District at Charleston SC, December 1957
Decommissioned 2 September 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
Assigned to NRT, 6th Naval District at St. Petersburg FL 1 August 1962
Out of Service 20 February 1967, Stricken 20 February 1967.


Fate: Sold for scrap, 6 September 1967, to
Lipsett, Inc. of NYC and broken up at Kearny NJ

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Size Image Description Contributed
By And/Or Copyright
Greenwood 45k starboard bow
undated wartime image
Contributed by John Lorence. In Memory of Harry Welsh Y3c/USN.
Greenwood 136k underway off Key West, FL 1947 Contributed by John Lorence and Ken Knudsen S1c/USN.
Greenwood 38k postwar image
date unknown
USN
Greenwood 54k port bow
date unknown.
Contributed by John Lorence and Frank Coleman EM1/USN.
Greenwood 179k Newport, January 1967 © Richard Leonhardt

View the Greenwood (DE-679)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name: John Lorence.
Address: None
Phone: None
E-mail: de679@yahoo.com


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
USS Greenwood DE-679

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