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DE- 696 USS SPANGLER

CLASS - Buckley
Displacement 1,400 Tons, Dimensions, 306' (oa) x 37' x 13' 6" (Max)
Armament 3 x 3"/50, 4 x 1.1" AA, 8 x 20 mmAA, 3 x 21"TT (1x3) 1 Hedgehog, 8 DCT, 2racks.
Machinery, 12,000 SHP; G. E. Turbines with electric drive, 2 screws
Speed, 24 Knots, Range 6,000 NM @ 12 Knts. Crew 186.

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Defoe Shipbuilding, Bay City MI 28 April 1943, Launched 15 July 1943
Commissioned 31 October 1943, Decommissioned 8 October 1958
Stricken 1 March 1972
Fate Sold 20 November 1972 to Zidell Explorations, Inc of Portland OR and broken up for scrap

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Spangler 152k Christmas 1943, Spangler is shown here in the Boston Navy Yard covered with ice after a high speed run from Bermuda CDR David Rodney Rehmeyer, USN Ret.
Spangler 57k Taken 1951 era steaming under the Golden Gate Bridge Allied Photographers, San Francisco
Submitted by Robert Ellis SO2
Spangler 92k pre-1950 William C. Hager
BT1, USN, Ret.
Spangler 77k post-1950 William C. Hager
BT1, USN, Ret.
Spangler 82k Engineering Dep't 1951 William C. Hager
BT1, USN, Ret.
Spangler 112k Enginneering Dep't, Hawaii, 1953 William C. Hager
BT1, USN, Ret.
Spangler 65k Fireroom #1 William C. Hager
BT1, USN, Ret.

SPANGLER DE- 696 History
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(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

13 - 15 October 2003, Laughlin NV, Riverside Resort Hotel

Contact Name:David D. Norris
Address: 2411 Seahorse Avenue / Ventura CA 93001
Phone:805-642-2689
E-mail:twometrman@aol.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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