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Courtesy USS Wiseman Website

DE- 667 USS WISEMAN

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 Dravo, Pittsburgh on 26 July 1943, Launched 6 November 1943
Commissioned 4 April 1944, Decommissioned 31 January 1947
Recommissioned Autumn 1950, Decommissioned and placed "In Service" 16 May 1959 and
Assigned same date as Group I NRT ship, 11th Naval District at San Diego CA
Recommissioned 2 October 1961 for the Berlin Crisis, Decommissioned 1 August 1962
Placed "Out of Service" 15 April 1973, Stricken 15 April 1973


Fate: sold for scrapping 29 April 1974, to Levin Metals Corp., San Jose CA for the
sum of $65,000.00. Removed from Navy custody 22 May 1974.

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Wiseman 87k undated USN
Wiseman 43k undated USN / John Strohmaier
Wiseman 81k Highline transfer from USS Wiseman (DE-667) to USS Moore (DE-442), 1957. Picture taken from Moore. © Joe Radigan

View the Wiseman (DE-667)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None Located
Contact Name: None
Address: None
Phone: None
E-mail: None


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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USS Wiseman Website
Destroyer Escort Sailors Association

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