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DE- 216 / APD -66 USS ENRIGHT

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 21 September 1943
Reclassified APD-66, 21 January 1945, converted at the Boston NSY
Decommissioned 21 June 1946, Stricken 31 March 1978

Fate: to Ecuador 14 July 1967, renamed 25 de Julio (E-12)
stricken and scrapped in 1989

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USS ENRIGHT DE- 216 / APD -66 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information

2003 Reunion Information
Place: Albany, NY
Date: 5,6 and 7 September 2003
Contact: Paul E. Bielinski
Phone: (845) 246-8798
E-mail: USS Enright 2003 Reunion
Remarks: Phone contact after 28 September 2003
will be (850) 234-5722 x734

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
NavSource APD Pages, ENRIGHT

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