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USS Alger (DE 101)

Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - Z - D - W

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
American Campaign Medal - WWII Victory Medal

Specifications:
Class: Cannon
Type: DET (diesel-electric tandem motor drive, long hull, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1240 tons (light), 1620 tons (full)
Length: 300' (wl), 306' (oa)
Beam: 36' 10" (extreme)
Draft: 10' 6" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 4 GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 21 kts
Range: 10,800 nm @ 12 knots
Armament: 3 x 3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1 twin 40mm Mk1 AA, 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
Complement: 15 / 201

Alger (DE 101) Building and Operational Data:

2 January 1943: Keel laid by the Dravo Corp., Wilmington, Del.

8 July 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by sponsored by Miss Louisa Rodgers Alger

12 November 1943: Commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Lcdr W. F. Porter in command

21 January 1944: Arrived in Trinidad to commence service in the Caribbean and South Atlantic, operating primarily between Trinidad and Recife, Brazil

10 March 1945: Decommissioned at Natal, Brazil; loaned to Brazil and renamed NAe Babitonga (D-16) (stricken and scrapped in 1964)

20 July 1953: Stricken from the NVR, title transferred outright to Brazil under the Mutual Assistance Program (MAP)

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
56k	early 1944: USS *Hamul* (AD 20) with (from left to right) DEs USS *Calcaterra* (DE 390); USS *Pride* (DE 323); USS *Falgout* (DE 324); USS *Alger* (DE 101) and USS *Eichenberger* (DE 202), alongside at Bermuda. Note HF/DF antenna visible on three of the five DEs, and the two-tone Measure 22 camouflage on four of the five DEs. (U.S. Naval Historical Center photo #NH 86271, courtesy of the Captain D.L. Madeira Collection)	Robert Hurst
148k	undated wartime image	John Klar
117k	undated: as the Brazilian Navy CT Babaitonga (D-16)	Luiz Brazil Cotta, FT3 (Brazilian Navy, Ret.)
81k	circa 1960: Babitonga (D-16, ex-USS Alger, DE-101) underway. (Official Brazilian Navy photo; from "Jane's Fighting Ships, 1961-62")	Robert Hurst

View the USS Alger (DE 101) DANFS history entry located
on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None

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