Please Report Any Broken Links Or Trouble You Might Come Across To The Webmaster
Please Take A Moment To Let Us Know So That We Can Correct Any Problems And Make Your Visit As Enjoyable And As Informative As Possible.

Navsource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive

USS Bronstein (DE-189)

N - Y - X - M

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 - WWII Victory Medal

Class: Cannon      Type: DET (diesel-electric tandem motor drive, long hull, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1,240 tons (std) 1,620 tons (full)   Dimensions: 306' (oa), 300' (wl) x 36' 10" x 11' 8" (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 GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 21 knots   Range: 10,800 nm @ 12 knots   Crew: 15 / 201

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Federal Shipbuilding, Port Newark NJ on 26 August 1943
Launched 14 November 1943, Commissioned 13 December 1943
Decommissioned 5 November 1945, Stricken 14 May 1952

Fate: Sold to Uruguay 3 May 1952, renamed ROU Artigas (DE-2),
she was stricken and broken up in 1988.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
6k	Ben Richard Bronstein (14 April 1915 - 28 February 1942) was born in Manchester NH and graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1936, then from Tufts College Medical School at Boston in 1940. Dr. Bronstein was appointed Assistant Surgeon, Medical Corps with the rank of lieutenant (junior grade) on 4 October 1941. He reported to the Portsmouth (NH) Navy Yard on 6 November; then moved on to Casco Bay ME to await transportation to Argentia, Newfoundland, to meet USS *Jacob Jones* (DD-130). He reported on board the destroyer late in December. While serving as a roving antisubmarine patrol ship off the Delaware Capes on 27 February 1942, *Jacob Jones* spotted the burning wreckage of the torpedoed tanker *R. P. Resor. The destroyer searched the area around the wreckage for survivors and then headed south on patrol. At dawn on 28 February, the undetected German submarine U-578* sank *Jacob Jones* with at least two torpedoes. Lt.(jg.) Bronstein was lost with the ship. USS *Bronstein* (DE-189) was named in his honor.	Navsource
114k	late 1944 - early 1945; the Atlantic Ocean	Roy L. Simmons WWII crewmember
99k	undated, Wilman Fuentes lives in Montevideo, Uruguay and is making a historical compilation about *Bronstein*'s service in Uruguay from 1952 until 1988.	Wilman Fuentes
72k	August 1960: boston MA - ROU *Artigas* (DE-2) at the Boston Navy Yard	Dick Leonhardt
81k	undated image	Wilman Fuentes, via Mark Roberts at Destroyers Online
52k	*Artigas* underway, date / location unknown	Robert Hurst

View the USS Bronstein (DE-189), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center website.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Next Reunion: To Be Announced.
Contact Name: Roy L. Simmons
Address: 220 Homevale Road / Reisterstown MD 21136-2128
Phone: (410) 833-3759
E-mail: R. Simmons

Contact Name: "Smiley" Burnette
E-mail: Smiley Burnette

Note About Contacts

Contact information is compiled from various sources over a period of time and may, or may not, be correct. Every effort has been
made to list the newest contact. However, our entry is only as good as the latest information that's been sent to us. We list only
a contact for the ship if one has been sent to us. We do NOT have crew lists or rosters available. Please see the Frequently Asked
Questions section on Navsource's Main Page for that information.

Additional Resources

Destroyer Escort Sailors Association

To The DE Photo Index Page

Back To The Main Photo Index

Comments, Suggestions, or Image Submissions, Please E-mail: DE Info
Problems or Site Related Matters, Please E-mail: Webmaster

This Page Is Created And Maintained by Mike Smolinski
All Pages Copyright © 1996 - 2008 Paul R. Yarnall © 2008 Navsource Naval History. All Rights Reserved.
Page Last Updated 14 January 2008