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DE- 148 USS BROUGH

CLASS: Edsall TYPE: FMR (geared diesel, Fairbanks-Morse reverse gear drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1,200 tons (std) 1,590 tons (full) Dimensions: 306' (oa), 300' (wl) x 36' 10" x 12' 3" (max)
Armament: 3 x 3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1 twin 40mm Mk1 AA, 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: 4 Fairbanks-Morse Mod. 38d81/8 geared diesel engines, 4 diesel-generators, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 21 knots Range: 9,100 nm @ 12 knots Crew: 8 / 201

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Consolidated Steel, Orange TX. on 22 January 1943, Launched 10 April 1943
Commissioned 18 September 1943, Decommissioned 22 March 1946
Recommissioned 7 September 1951, Decommissioned (?)
Stricken 1 November 1965.

Fate: sold 13 October 1966, scrapped

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Brough 236k 1951 photo going into Havana Cuba Charles Cordino
Brough 41k underway 1953, coming alongside for fuel © Richard O. Armstrong, 1953.
Brough 44k Key West Naval Annex - Feb 1960 © Fred Weiss,
SOG3,
USS Brough
Brough 180k Mayport FL 1962. Taken from Mount 32 on the Brough overlooking Mayport harbor. Off the port bow is the Noa (DD-841), in the background is the Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42). Bill Netch
Brough 65k Boston Harbor, September 1962 © Richard Leonhardt
Brough 63k Boston Harbor, September 1962 © Richard Leonhardt
Brough 53k Photo taken from mount 32 of Brough, Sept. 1962. Hissem DER-400 off port bow, Coast guard cutter and Betelguese AK-260 off bow, coast of Cuba off starboard © Fred Weiss
Brough 53k Key West Naval Annex in Dec. 1962 © Fred Weiss

View the Brough (DE-148)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information

In conjunction with the DESA National Conventon
26 - 30 September 2004
Ft. Mitchell KY (across river from Cincinnati OH)
USS Brough Web Site

Contact Name: none
Address: none
Phone: none
E-mail: RBlue148@aol.com


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