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USS Flaherty (DE-135)


Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign:
N - W - S - O
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive) - Presidential Unit Citation
Second Row: American Campaign Medal - European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal w/ 4stars - WWII Victory Medal
CLASS: Edsall      TYPE: FMR (geared diesel, Fairbanks-Morse reverse gear drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1,200 tons (std) 1,590 tons (full)    Dimensions: 306' (oa), 300' (wl) x 36' 10" x 12' 3" (max)
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
Machinery: 4 Fairbanks-Morse Mod. 38d81/8 geared diesel engines, 4 diesel-generators, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 21 knots    Range: 9,100 nm @ 12 knots    Crew: 8 / 201
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Consolidated Steel, Orange TX on 7 November 1942, Launched 17 January 1943
Commissioned 26 June 1943, Decommissioned 17 June 1946
Stricken 1 April 1965
Fate: Sold 4 November 1966, scrapped
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Flaherty 142k Artist's conception of Flaherty 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 the destroyer escorts ARE available in their WWII configuration. 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
Flaherty 45k Francis Charles Flaherty (15 March 1919 - 7 December 1941) was born in Charlotte, Michigan. He enlisted in the Naval Reserve on 6 July 1940, and was appointed ensign 12 December 1940. While serving in USS Oklahoma (BB-37) he sacrificed his life in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941. When his ship was being abandoned, he remained in a turret holding a flashlight so that all of his men could see to escape. For this supreme devotion to duty, Ensign Flaherty was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

The escort ship USS Flaherty (DE-135) was named in his honor.

(Photo from the the Home of Heroes)		 Navsource
Flaherty 129k undated wartime image John Klar
Flaherty 50k Oil Painting showing Flaherty underway © Sam L. Massette / From The DESA archives
View the USS Flaherty (DE-135), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Last Reunion Info We Have:
Task Force 22.3 & CVE 60 Guadalcanal,
Spring of 2004, at Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago Ill.
Contact Name: Roger Cozens
Address: 2528 13th Avenue / Greeley CO 80631
Phone: (970) 352-3022
E-mail: R. Cozens
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