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DE- 148 USS BROUGH

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 22 January 1943, Launched 10 April 1943
Commissioned 18 September 1943, Decommissioned 22 March 1946
Recommissioned 7 September 1951, Decommissioned (?)
Stricken 1 November 1965.
Fate Sold 13 October 1966 and broken up for scrap.

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Brough 236k 1951 photo going into Havana Cuba Charles Cordino
Brough 41k Underway 1953, Coming alongside for fuel © Richard O. Armstrong, 1953.
Brough 44k Key West Naval Annex - Feb 1960 © Fred Weiss
Brough 180k Mayport, FL 1962. Taken from Mount 32 on the Brough overlooking Mayport harbor. Off the port bow is the Noa (DD-841), in the background is the Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42). Bill Netch
Brough 65k Boston Harbor, September 1962 © Richard Leonhardt
Brough 63k Boston Harbor, September 1962 © Richard Leonhardt
Brough 53k Photo taken from mount 32 of USS Brough DE-148, Sept. 1962. USS Hissem DER-400 off port bow, Coast guard cutter and USS Betelguese AK-260 off bow, coast of Cuba off starboard © Fred Weiss
Brough 53k Key West Naval Annex in Dec. 1962 © Fred Weiss
Brough 43k Brough patch worn in the late 50s and early 60s. Fred Weiss, USS Brough DE-148, SOG3
Brough 48k ship's patch Mike Smolinski

USS BROUGH DE- 148 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

Contact Name: NONE
Address: NONE
Phone:NONE
E-mail: RBlue148@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.


Additional Resources
Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
http://brough148.homestead.com USS Brough Web Site

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