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DE- 366 USS ALVIN C. COCKRELL

Class: John C. Butler Type:WGT (geared-turbine drive, 5" guns)
Displacement: 1,350/1745 tons Dimensions: 306' (oa) x 36' 10" x 13'4" (max)
Armament: 2-5"/38, 4 (2x2) 40mmAA, 10-20mm AA, 3-21" TT, 1 Hedgehog, 8 DCT's, 2 DC tracks
Machinery: 2 boilers, 2 geared turbine engines, 12,000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 knots Range: 6000 nm@12 knots Crew: 14 / 201

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Consolidated Steel, Orange TX. on 1 May 1944
Launched August 8 1944, Commissioned 7 October 1944
Decommissioned 2 July 1946, Recommissioned 27 June 1951
Assigned to NRT, 12th Naval District at San Francisco CA 1 July 1958
Decommissioned 17 January 1959, placed "in service" as a unit of the Select Reserve ASW Force
Recommissioned 1 October 1961 for the Berlin Crisis, Decommissioned and placed "in service" 1 August 1962
Out Of Service 20 September 1968, Stricken 23 September 1968

Fate: sunk as target off California 19 September 1969

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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


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