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DE- 325 USS LOWE

CLASS - Edsall
Displacement 1,250 Tons, Dimensions, 306' (oa) x 36' x 10' 5" (Max)
Armament 3 x 3"/50, 2x 40mmAA, 10x 20mm AA, 3 x 21" TT, 1 Hedgehog, 8 DCT's 2 DC racks.
Machinery, 6,000 SHP; 4 Fairbanks Morse Model 38d81/8 Geared Diesel Engines, 2 screws
Speed, 21 Knots, Crew 186.

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Consolidated Steel, Orange TX. on May 24 1943.
Launched July 28 1943.
Commissioned November 22 1943.
Decommissioned May 1 1946.
Loaned to USCG and Recommissioned WDE-425, July 20 1951.
Returned USN and Decommissioned June 1 1954.
Reclassified and converted DER-324, October 28 1954.
Recommissioned (?) 1955.
Decommissioned (?).
Stricken September 23 1968.
Fate Sold September 3 1969 and broken up for scrap.

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Lowe 206k Undated, as DER-425. © Mike Proffit RM2c 60-62.
Lowe 211k Undated, as DER-425. © Mike Proffit RM2c 60-62.
Lowe 61k Undated, War Time Image. USN / Joseph N. Ouellette Signalman 3c, 1961.
Lowe 60k ship's patch Mike Smolinski

USS LOWE DE- 325 History
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