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DE- 684 USS DE LONG

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 Bethlehem Steel, Quincy MA on 19 October 1943, Launched 23 November 1943
Commissioned 31 December 1943
Planned conversion to APD-137 cancelled
Decommissioned January 1946, Recommissioned 7 February 1951
Assigned to NRT, 3rd Naval District at New York City, NY 3 January 1958
Decommissioned and placed "in service" as a unit of the Select Reserve ASW Force
Recommissioned in 1961 for the Berlin Crisis, Decommissioned and placed "in service" 1 August 1962
Placed "Out of Service 8 August 1969, Stricken 8 August 1969

Fate: sunk as target off Puerto Rico 19 February 1970

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De Long 85k undated postwar image US Navy photo
De Long 54k undated postwar image US Navy photo
De Long 105k underway, circa the 1950's or early 1960's
(NHC #98909)
Mike Green

View the DeLong (DE-684)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Next Reunion:2004 in Mystic CT

Contact Name: Allen T. Kirkley So2
Address: 10662 First Way North St. / Petersburg FL 33716
Phone:(727) 579-3848
E-mail: none
Or
Contact Name:Darrel Ruebsamen
Address:13315 Heights Path / San Antonio TX 78230-5866
Phone: (210) 492-1895
E-mail: none

NOTE
Seeking all former crew members to get in touch with us,
Most especially seeking the whereabouts of Eugene Emmett Schmidt aboard Delong 1951 to 1955
and was from St.Louis, Mo. Sonarman 2nd at that time.


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

Darrel Ruebsamen's DeLong Site

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