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DE- 218 USS DARBY

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 Philadelphia NSY on 22 February 1943
Launched 29 May 1943, Commissioned 15 November 1943
Decommissioned 28 April 1947, Recommissioned 24 October 1950
Assigned to NRT, 5th Naval District at Baltimore MD, placed "In Service, In Reserve" 23 February 1959
Activated for the Berlin Crisis, October 1961 to August 1962, returned to NRT duties at Baltimore
Decommissioned (?) 1958, Stricken 23 September 1968

Fate: sunk as target 24 May 1970

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Darby 31k undated wartime image USN / Robert L. Anderson
Darby 161k undated postwar image USN / Robert L. Anderson
Darby 23k undated postwar image USN / Robert L. Anderson
Darby 21k undated postwar image USN / Robert L. Anderson
Darby 21k undated postwar image USN / Robert L. Anderson
Darby 45k Norfolk, Virginia, 1951. USN / Robert L. Anderson
Darby 101k ship's emblem Robert L. Anderson

View the Darby (DE-218)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site.
More History (from a former crewmember)
Crew Contact And Reunion Information


Contact Name: YNC Robert L. Andersen (ret)
Address: 3610 Benson Avenue / Baltimore MD 21227
Phone: (410) 644-9251
E-mail: rande71777@msn.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.


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