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DE- 695 USS RICH

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 Defoe Shipbuilding, Bay City MI on 27 March 1943, Launched 22 June 1943
Commissioned 1 October 1943

Fate: Struck mine and sank off Utah Beach, Quineville, France 8 June 1944

89 of her crew were lost with the ship and remain on duty.

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Rich 242k Launching 22 June 1943, Defoe Shipbuilding, Bay City Michigan, note the sidewise launch. © John Arnold Fryberger.
In memory of my father, John Arnold Fryberger, FC3C, USNR
By his son, George M. Fryberger
Rich 72k Rich, a U.S. PT boat, a British motor launch, and a U.S. "Auk" class minesweeper are standing by the destroyer Glennon (DD-620), at the right of the photo, after her stern was blown off by a mine, at Normandy on 8 Jun 1944. The Rich soon hit another mine, which also destroyed her stern, and was then sunk by a third mine. (Photo #: NHC 44311) Mike Green
Rich 49k Rich strikes a mine, amidships, while operating off Normandy on 8 Jun 1944. She had previously hit another mine, which blew off her stern. (Photo #: NHC 44312) Mike Green

RICH DE- 695 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Next Reunion: Branson Missouri, June 2001.
Contact Name: Joseph Podorski
Address: None
Phone: (636) 530-1226
E-mail: jbwdlh@netrax.net


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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