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DE- 696 USS SPANGLER

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 Defoe Shipbuilding, Bay City MI on 28 April 1943
Launched 15 July 1943, Commissioned 31 October 1943
Decommissioned 8 October 1958, Stricken 1 March 1972

Fate: Sold 20 November 1972 and broken up for scrap

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Spangler 57k steaming under the Golden Gate Bridge, circa 1951 Allied Photographers, San Francisco
Submitted by Robert Ellis SO2

SPANGLER DE- 696 History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry (Not Presently Available)
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

7 - 10 October 2004, St. Louis MO

Contact Name: David D. Norris
Address: none
Phone: none
E-mail: David Norris


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.


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