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USS Bates (DE 68 / APD 47)

Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - G - A - Q

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive) - American Campaign Medal
Second Row: Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/2 stars - European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - WWII Victory Medal

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 MA on 29 March 1943
Launched 6 June 1943, Commissioned 12 September 1943
Converted at Marine Basin Co., Brooklyn NY, reclassified APD-47, 31 July 1944

Fate: sunk by Japanese Kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa 25 May 1945

21 of her crew were lost with the ship and remain on duty.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
39k	crew portrait	Carolyn Hooper
115k	undated wartime image	Don Scott via Robert Taylor
133k	undated wartime image (from Randy's Dad, a wartime crewmember)	Randy Barsalou

View the USS Bates (DE 68 / APD 47), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None

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