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USS Courtney (DE-1021)


Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign:
N - C - R - D
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "Utah Lake"

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Navy Expeditionary Medal - National Defense Service Medal


Class: Courtney (As Built)      FY / SCB No.: 54/72
Displacement: 1314 tons (std), 1877 tons (full)    Dimensions: 314' 6"(oa), 308" (wl) x 36' 9" x 18' 0"
Armament: 4 x 3"/50 (2x2) Mk 33, 1 Mk 108 ASW rocket launcher, 6-324mm Mk 32 (2x3) tubes / Mk 46 torpedos
Machinery: 2 Foster-Wheeler boilers; 1 De Laval geared turbine; 20,000 shp; 1 shaft
Speed: 27 knots    Range: 6,000 nm @ 12 knots    Crew: 12 / 161

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Defoe Shipbuilding, Bay City MI 2 September 1954
Launched 2 November 1955, Commissioned 24 September 1956
Decommissioned (unknown), Stricken 14 December 1973

Fate: Sold for scrapping 17 June 1974

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Courtney 101k Artist's conception of Courtney by the renowned graphic illustrator John Barrett, with the text written by naval author and historian Robert F. Sumrall.Their company, Navy Yard Associates, offers prints of most destroyers, submarines and aircraft carriers in various configurations during the ship's lifetime. ALL destroyer escorts are available. The prints can be customized with ship's patches, your photograph, your bio, etc. When you purchase artwork from them, please indicate that you heard about their work from Navsource. Navy Yard Associates
Courtney 32k Henry A. Courtney (6 January 1916 - 15 May 1945) was born and raised in Duluth, Minnesota. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve in February 1940. As a company commander on Guadalcanal in 1942, he shared in the Presidential Unit Citation awarded the First Marine Division. While serving as executive officer of a battalion of the Sixth Marine Division on Okinawa, he was killed in action after exhibiting great courage and self-sacrifice leading a successful night attack against enemy positions on Sugar Loaf Hill 15 May 1945. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, and a second Presidential Unit Citation that was earned by the Sixth Marine Division.

USS Courtney, DE-1021, was the first ship named in his honor.       (Photo from the web site, Home of Heroes)

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Courtney 75k undated (US Navy Photo) David Waters
Courtney 224k 19 August 1970: Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island - An aerial starboard view of the escort ship USS Courtney (DE-1021) underway. (Official US Navy Photograph by PHCS Walter H. Long) (Note: I served in Courtney from 1970-1972, when she was homeported in Naples. The previous image shows Courtney as-built, with Weapon Alfa and the rear 3-inch mount still installed. When I was aboard she was in her final (modified) configuration, with only the forward 3-inch mount. The Commodore's cabin was added - modified as squadron flagship during overhaul. The rear mount was removed, replaced by the ITASS shack and spool. This overhaul prepared the squadron for deployment to homeport Naples, Italy.) John Clingman
ETR2, USN, 1969-1973
Courtney 316k 19 August 1970: Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island - An aerial port bow view of Courtney underway. (Official US Navy Photograph by PHCS Walter H. Long) John Clingman
Courtney 263k 19 August 1970: Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island - A port bow view of Courtney underway. (Official US Navy Photograph by PHCS Walter H. Long) John Clingman
Courtney 317k 19 August 1970: Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island - An aerial port quarter view of Courtney underway. (Official US Navy Photograph by PHCS Walter H. Long) John Clingman
Courtney 164k 19 August 1970: Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island - A port side view of Courtney underway. (Official US Navy Photograph by PHCS Walter H. Long) John Clingman
Courtney Memorabilia
Welcome Aboard
Pamphlet - 1969
Courtney
Courtesy of
William F. Fessenden

View the USS Courtney (DE-1021), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

2008 Reunion for all Newport Based Dealeys
25 - 28 September 2008 at Nashville TN

Chairman: Marc Arsenault
Address: 98 Oxbow Road / Charlton MA 01507
Phone: (508) 248-5072
E-mail: marc-a@charter.net
or
contact through Newport Dealey link below

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