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DE - 56 USS DONNELL

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 Bethlehem Steel Hingham, Hingham MA on 27 November 1942, Launched 13 March 1943
Commissioned 26 June 1943
Reclassified IX - 182, 10 July 1944
Decommissioned 23 October 1945
Stricken 16 November 1945
Fate: sold for scrapping 29 April 1946

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Donnell 37K Contributed by shipmates of the USS Reeves (DE-156/APD-52)
of the Donnell being taken in tow after a U-boat attack 4 May 1944.
Alison Strehlow
Donnell 62K Contributed by shipmates of the USS Reeves (DE-156/APD-52)
of the Donnell being taken in tow after a U-boat attack 4 May 1944.
Alison Strehlow
Donnell 22K Contributed by shipmates of the USS Reeves (DE-156/APD-52)
of the Donnell being taken in tow after a U-boat attack 4 May 1944.
Alison Strehlow
Donnell 24K Contributed by shipmates of the USS Reeves (DE-156/APD-52)
of the Donnell being taken in tow after a U-boat attack 4 May 1944.
Alison Strehlow
Donnell 295kb "All Hands", Sept 1945, shows Donnell (DE-56) at Cherbourg being used as a power plant after fantail was blown off by a German torpedo. Transformer on deck was captured from the Germans. Darryl L. Baker
Donnell 222kb "All Hands", Sept 1945, shows Donnell (DE-56) at Cherbourg being used as a power plant after fantail was blown off by a German torpedo. Darryl L. Baker

USS DONNELL DE- 56 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None Located
Contact Name: none
Address: none
Phone: none
E-mail: none


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