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DE- 334 USS FORSTER

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 31 August 1943, Launched 13 November 1943
Commissioned 25 January 1944, Decommissioned 15 June 1946
Loaned to USCG and Recommissioned WDE-434, 29 June 1951
Returned USN and Decommissioned 25 May 1954
Reclassified and converted DER-331, 21 October 1955
Recommissioned 23 October 1956, .
Decommissioned (?) (25 Sep 71)
Stricken Unknown (25, Sept. 71),
Fate: To South Vietnam 25 September 1971, Renamed Tran Khanh Du (HQ-03)
Captured (undergoing overhaul) after the South's fall and reported to still be in use as a training vessel.

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Forster 79k As DER-334, Pearl Harbor, January 1969 © Richard Leonhardt
Forster 56k RD2 Phil Burton had this photo scanned and printed from a cruise book photo, circa 1964 Dick Hallowell
RD1 ('64-'66)

USS FORSTER DE- 334 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information


Contact Name: Byron Maggos
Address: 17506 Meadowbrook Drive / Grayslake IL 60030
Phone: (847) 918-9734
E-mail: Byron Maggos


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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