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USS Courtney (DE1021)


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


Specifications:
Class: Courtney
Type: SCB No. 72 / 1954 - 55
Number in Class: 10
Displacement: 1,314 tons (light), 1,877 tons (full)
Length: 308' (wl), 314' 6" (oa)
Beam: 36' 9" (extreme)
Draft: 19' 6" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 2 Foster-Wheeler boilers; 1 De Laval geared turbine; 20,000 shp; 1 shaft
Speed: 26 kts
Range: 6,000 nm @ 12 knots
Complement: 12 / 161
Guns: 4 - 3"/50 (76mm) Mk33 Guns (2x2)
ASW Weapons: 1 Mk 108 ASW rocket launcher, 6 - 12.75" (324mm) Mk 32 torpedo tubes (2x3) / Mk 46 torpedos
Radars: AN/SPS-10 (surface), AN/SPS-6C (air)
Sonars: AN/SQS-4
Fire Control Systems: Mk63 Gun FCS, Mk105 Underwater Battery FCS
Courtney (DE1021) Building and Operational Data:
  • 2 September 1954: Keel laid at the Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Mich.; sponsored ;
  • 2 November 1955: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. H. A. Courtney
  • 24 September 1956: Commissioned, Lcdr C. W. Coe in command
  • 14 December 1973: Decommissioned and Stricken
  • 18 June 1974: Sold for scrapping to the Union Minerals and Alloys Corp., New York, N.Y. for $75,141.00
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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 was born on 6 January 1916 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 (DE1021) 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 82k An undated postcard view of Courtney.    (Postcard © Arnold Art Store, Newport, R.I.; shown at 150% of original size)

    Caption reads: A unit of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet home-ported at Newport, R.I. on Narragansett Bay. (Official U.S. Navy photograph)
    Mike Smolinski
    Courtney 224k 19 August 1970: Narragansett Bay, R.I. - An aerial starboard view of the escort ship USS Courtney (DE1021) underway. (Official U.S. 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, R.I. - 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, R.I. - 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, R.I. - 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, R.I. - A port side view of Courtney underway. (Official US Navy Photograph by PHCS Walter H. Long) John Clingman
    ***Levy*** 79k 18 June 1974: the Dep't of Defense Bid List for the scrapping of ex-DE's 162, 180, 181, 1015, 1021, and 1022 (Levy, Trumpeter, Straub, Hammerberg, Courtney, and Lester). Ed Zajkowski
         and
    Tim Rizzuto
    Courtney Memorabilia
    Welcome Aboard
    Pamphlet - 1969
    Courtney
    Courtesy of
    William F. Fessenden

    View the USS Courtney (DE1021) DANFS history entry
    located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.

    Courtney's Commanding Officers
    Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves
    24 September 1956 - 1958   Lcdr. Carl Weston Coe
    1958 - 1959   Lcdr. Levio Edward Zeni
    1959 - 1961   Lcdr. John Dryden Exum
    1961 - 1962   Lcdr. Henry L. Stanfield
    1962 - 1964   Lcdr. Thomas Henry Nugent Jr.
    1964 - 1965   Lcdr. Thomas Richard Kinnebrew (later Vadm.)
    1965 - January 1967   Lcdr. Frank Calvin Johnston Jr.
    January 1967 - 1968   Lcdr. John Louis Townley
    1968 - 1969   Lcdr. Albert J. Herbergerm (later Vadm.)
    1969 - July 1970   Lcdr. Bill C. Dean
    July 1970 - January 1972   Lcdr. Robert T. Reimann (later Radm.)
    January 1972 - November 1972   Lcdr. Alfred Henry Spruell Jr.
    November 1972 - 14 December 1973   Lcdr. Wesley Earl Jordan Jr. (later Radm.)

    Crew Contact And Reunion Information

    2009 Reunion for all Newport Based Dealeys
    24 - 27 September 2009 at Norfolk VA

    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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