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DE- 386 USS SAVAGE

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 April 30 1943.
Launched July 15 1943.
Commissioned October 29 1943.
Decommissioned June 13 1946.
Reclassified and converted DER-386, October 28 1954.
Recommissioned February 18 1955.
Decommissioned October 17 1969.
Stricken June 1 1975.
Fate Sunk as target off California on October 25 1982.

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Savage 62k Moored, Pier 91 Seattle, WA. Sometime between 1954 and 1957. Mel Kowal, Lt. (USNR) Ret.
Savage 112k Unknown. USN.
Savage 45k ship's patch Mike Smolinski

USS SAVAGE DE- 386 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information


Contact Name: Raymond C. Zachgo
Address: 181 Denny Lane / Winchester VA 22603
Phone:540-662-6470
E-mail:rmzachgo@visuallink.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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