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DE- 397 USS WILHOITE

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 Brown Shipbuilding, Houston on August 4 1943.
Launched October 5 1943.
Commissioned December 16 1943.
Decommissioned June 19 1946.
Reclassified and converted DER-397, September 2 1954.
Recommissioned January 29 1955.
Decommissioned July 2 1969.
Stricken July 2 1969.
Fate Sold July 19 1972 and broken up for scrap.

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Wilhoite 84k Pearl Harbor, February 12 1966. © Richard Leonhardt

USS WILHOITE DE- 397 History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Next Reunion: Oct 18-21, 2001 in San Diego, Ca
Contact Name: Will Hays
Address: 5883 Adobe Falls Rd. San Diego, CA 92120
Phone: (619) 265-7377 or (800) 729-2900
E-mail: whays@home.com


Note About Contacts.

The contact listed, Was the contact at the time for this ship when located. If another person now is the contact, E-mail me and I will update this entry. These contacts are compiled from various sources over a long period of time and may or may not be correct. Every effort has been made to list the newest contact if more than one contact was found.


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