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USS Stern (DE 187)

Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - Q - D - D

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 - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 2 stars
Second Row: European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal w/ 1 star - WWII Victory Medal - Philippine Liberation Ribbon

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

Stern (DE 187) Building and Operational Data:

12 August 1943: Keel laid by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corp., Port Newark, N.J.

31 October 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Joan M. Stern

1 December 1943: Commissioned, Cmdr. James R. Hinton, USNR, in command

26 April 1946: Decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla.

1 March 1951: Stricken from the NVR; transferred (MAP) to the Netherlands, renamed HMNS Van Zijll (F-811)

15 December 1967: Returned to U.S. custody

February 1968: Sold for scrapping to Simons Scheepsslooperis N.V., Rotterdam

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
8k	Charles M. Stern, Jr., was born in Albany, N.Y., on 10 March 1915 and enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve on 1 August 1940. He was assigned to active duty on 22 November 1940 and appointed ensign on 28 February 1941. Ensign Stern was ordered to duty in battleship Oklahoma (BB 37) on 9 April 1941 and was killed when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December of that year. USS *Stern* (DE 187) (1943-1946) was the first ship named in his honor. (Photo from The Official Web Site of the USS Oklahoma BB 37 thanks to Kevin King)	Bill Gonyo
98k	10 December 1943: *Stern* off the coast of New York, en route to shakedown in Bermuda.	Thomas A. Staley SOM2c
104k	in the North Atlantic, 1944
77k	in the North Atlantic, 1944
169k	1944	David Buell
56k	HMNS *Dubois* (F-809)(ex USS *O'Neill* DE 188) and HMNS *Van Zijll* (F-811)(ex USS *Stern* DE 187) in Yokosuka harbor 1954	© John Wolf L/S R/P 2
18k	late 1960: taken at the Den Helder Navy Yard in the Netherlands	Robert Ruiter Amsterdam, the Netherlands

View the USS Stern (DE 187) DANFS history entry
located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None

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