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DE- 400 USS HISSEM

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 TX on 6 October 1943, Launched 26 November 1943
Commissioned 13 January 1944, Decommissioned 15 June 1946
Reclassified and converted DER-400, 21 October 1955
Recommissioned 31 August 1956, Decommissioned 15 May 1970
Stricken 1 June 1975
Fate Sunk as target off California, 24 February 1982

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Hissem 67k Undated, war time image. USN / DESA Archives
Hissem 77k Undated, as DER-400. USN
Hissem 139k from "Our Navy Magazine", 15 November 1956 Stanley Svec
Hissem 47k ship's patch Mike Smolinski

USS HISSEM DE- 400 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
Oct 8-11, 2001 Las Vegas, Nv
Hissem Reunion Website

Contact Name: Chuck Walsh
Address: 777 E Rialto Ave
San Bernardino, Ca 92415-0740
Phone:760-256-8060
E-mail: reunion@usshissem


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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