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DE- 676 / APD -76 USS SCHMITT
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 MA on 22 February 1943
Launched 19 May 1943, Commissioned 23 July 1943
Decommissioned 2 January 1945 for redesignation and conversion to APD-76
(conversion carried out at US Naval Frontier Base, Tompkinsville, Staten Island, NY)
Recommissioned as APD-76, 3 April 1945, Decommissioned 28 June 1949
Stricken 1 May 1967
Fate: To Taiwan 18 February 1969, renamed Lung Shan (PF-44)
Stricken and broken up in 1976
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USS SCHMITT DE- 676 / APD -76 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
September 6 - 9, 2001
East Hartford, CT
Contact Name: Alton R. Blanks
Address: 6524 Merrill Road / Columbia SC 29209
Phone: (803) 776-5148
E-mail:Alton Blanks
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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Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
NavSource APD Pages, SCHMITT
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