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DE- 708 USS PARLE

CLASS: Rudderow TYPE: TEV (turbo-electric drive, long hull, 5" guns)
Displacement: 1,450 tons (std) 1,810 tons (full) Dimensions: 306' (oa), 300' (wl) x 36' 11.5" x 13' 9" (max)
Armament: 2-5"/38 Mk30, 4 (2x2) 40mm Mk1 AA, 10 x 20mm/70 Mk 4 AA, 3 x 21" Mk15 TT (3x1),
1 Hedgehog Projector Mk10 (230 rounds), 8 Mk6 depth charge projectors (40), 2 Mk9 depth charge tracks (60)
Machinery: 2 CE boilers, G.E. turbines with electric drive, 12000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 knots Range: 5,050 nm @ 12 knots Crew: 12 / 192

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Defoe Shipbuilding, Bay City MI on 8 January 1944, Launched 25 March 1944
Commissioned 29 July 1944, Decommissioned 10 July 1946
Recommissioned March 2 1951
Placed "In Service, In Reserve" and assigned to NRT, 5th Naval District at Norfolk VA, 1 January 1959
Recommissioned October 1961 for the Berlin Crisis, Decommissioned and placed back"in service" August 1962
Reassigned to NRT duty, 9th Naval District at Chicago IL, 1965
Decommissioned at Norfolk VA 1 July 1970, Stricken 1 July 1970
(Last commissioned US Navy ship based on the Great Lakes / Last Active DE in USN Service)

Fate: Sunk as target off Florida on 27 October 1970

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Parle 72k Cape Cod Bay, September 1962 © Richard Leonhardt
Parle 89k Cape Cod Bay, September 1962 © Richard Leonhardt
Parle 75k Cape Cod Bay, September 1962 © Richard Leonhardt
Parle 78k Cape Cod Bay, September 1962 © Richard Leonhardt

USS PARLE DE- 708 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name: Chet Hancock, QMCM (ret.)
Address: none
Phone: none
E-mail: Chet Hancock


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