Please Report Any Broken Links Or Trouble You Might Come Across To The Webmaster
Please Take A Moment To Let Us Know So That We Can Correct Any Problems And Make Your Visit As Enjoyable And As Informative As Possible.


NavSource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive

DE- 419 USS ROBERT F. KELLER

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 Brown Shipbuilding, Houston TX on 12 January 1944
Launched 19 February 1944, Commissioned 17 June 1944
Decommissioned 24 April 1946
Status changed to "in service", assigned to NRT, 13th Naval District at Puget Sound WA, September 1946
Status changed to "in commission, in reserve", assigned to NRT, Potomac River Naval Command
at Washington DC, 31 March 1950
Recommissioned 18 November 1950 (NRT)
Decommissioned 21 September 1959 and placed "in service"
as NRT ship, 5th Naval District at Baltimore MD
Recommissioned 2 October 1961 for Berlin Crisis, Decommissioned 1 August 1962
and placed back "in service" as NRT ship, 5th Naval District at Baltimore MD
Final Decommissioning January 1965, Stricken 1 July 1972

Fate: sold for scrapping 5 February 1974

Click On Image
For Full Size Image
Size Image Description Contributed
By And/Or Copyright
R.F. Keller 90k undated wartime image, showing the collision with Sargent Bay (CVE-83) USN / Bob Donlon, Sonarman 3/c
R.F. Keller 46kb undated wartime image USN / Bob Donlon, Sonarman 3/c
R.F. Keller 63kb undated postwar image USN / Bob Donlon, Sonarman 3/c
R.F. Keller 75kb Portsmouth, England, early '50's Bob Donlon, SOG3
R.F. Keller 71kb at sea in 1954-55 Bob Donlon, SOG3
R.F. Keller 46kb at sea in 1954-55 Bob Donlon, SOG3
R.F. Keller 129kb underway off the US Naval Gun Factory, Washington DC 54-55 Bob Donlon, SOG3

USS ROBERT F. KELLER DE- 419 History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

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.


Additional Resources
Destroyer Escort Sailors Association

Back To The Main Photo Index
To The Destroyer Escort Photo Index Page

Comments, Suggestions, E-mail Webmaster

This Page Is Created And Maintained By Mike Smolinski
All Pages Copyright © 1996 - 2005 Paul R. Yarnall ©2,000
NavSource Naval History. All Rights Reserved.