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Courtesy of Richard Houser
(crewmember '61-'63)

DE- 791 USS MALOY

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 Consolidated Steel, Orange TX on 10 May 1943
Launched 18 August 1943, Commissioned 13 December 1943
Scheduled conversion to APD-83 cancelled.
Decommissioned 28 May 1965, Stricken 1 June 1965
Fate: sold for scrapping 11 March 1966

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Maloy 47k 22 May 1963 US Navy photo
Maloy 87k Heading in or out of New London CT before she got her variable depth sonar in 1956 US Navy photo /
J. Everett.
Maloy 26k Picture taken in 1961 coming out past the Underwater Sound Lab at Groton CT Jim Jackson
crewmember 1960-1963

MALOY DE- 791 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name:USS Maloy Website


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USS Maloy Site
Destroyer Escort Sailors Association

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