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DE-1014 USS CROMWELL

CLASS - DEALEY As Built
FY / SCB No.: 52/72
Displacement:1314 tons (std), 1877 tons (full) Dimensions:314' 6"(oa), 308" (wl) x 36' 9" x 18' 0"
Armament: 4 x 3"/50 (2x2) Mk 33, 1 Mk 108 ASW rocket launcher, 6-324mm Mk 32 (2x3) tubes / Mk 46 torpedos
Machinery: 2 Foster-Wheeler boilers; 1 De Laval geared turbine; 20,000 shp; 1 shaft
Speed: 27 knots Range: 6,000 nm @ 12 knots Crew: 12 / 161

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bath Iron Works, Bath ME on 3 August 1953
Launched 20 August 1954, Commissioned 24 November 1954
Decommissioned (unknown), Stricken 5 July 1972
Fate: Scheduled for transfer to New Zealand.
Sold for scrapping 15 June 1973

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Cromwell 114k undated. USN
Cromwell 53k Boston Harbor, April 1961 © Richard Leonhardt

USS CROMWELL DE-1014 History
Not available at this time
DANFS History Archive
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

2005 Reunion for all Newport Based Dealeys
20 - 23 October 2005 at the Airport Holiday Inn, Jacksonville FL
Chairman is Charlie (Shoe) Holzschuh
E-mail: norchar1@juno.com or contact through Newport Dealey link below


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

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