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DE- 334 USS FORSTER

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 August 31 1943.
Launched November 13 1943.
Commissioned January 25 1944.
Decommissioned June 15 1946.
Loaned to USCG and Recommissioned WDE-434, June 29 1951.
Returned USN and Decommissioned May 25 1954.
Reclassified and converted DER-331, October 21 1955.
Recommissioned October 23 1956.
Decommissioned (?) (25, Sept. 71)
Stricken Unknown (25, Sept. 71),
Fate To South Vietnam September 25 1971.
Renamed Tran Khanh Du.
Captured (Undergoing Overhaul) after the South's fall and reported to still be in use as a training vessel.

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Forster 79k As DER-334, Pearl Harbor, January 1969. © Richard Leonhardt
Forster 25k ship's patch Mike Smolinski

USS FORSTER DE- 334 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information


Contact Name: Byron Maggos
Address: 17506 Meadowbrook Drive, Grayslake, IL 60030
Phone: (847) 918-9734
E-mail: byronmaggos@cs.com


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