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DE- 328 USS FINCH

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 June 29 1943.
Launched August 28 1943.
Commissioned December 13 1943.
Decommissioned October 4 1946.
Loaned to USCG and Recommissioned WDE-428, August 21 1951.
Returned USN and Decommissioned April 23 1954.
Reclassified and converted DER-328, October 21 1955.
Recommissioned September 17 1956.
Decommissioned October 1 1973.
Stricken February 1 1974.
Fate Sources differ on fate.
1.) Sold August 16 1974 and broken up for scrap.
2.) Sunk as a target sometime after August 1974.

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Finch 58k Kaohsuing Taiwan, March 1966. © Richard Leonhardt
Finch 43k ship's patch Mike Smolinski

USS FINCH DE- 328 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information

USS Finch DE-328, USCGC Finch WDE-428, USSFinch DER-328
Contact for ship history, reunions, crew list, both found and deceased.
Contact Name:None
Address: NONE
Phone:NONE
E-mail: Scuttlebutt-DE328Finch@aol.com
(I am not sure about this address but that is how it came in).


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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