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USS Enright (DE-216 / APD-66)

Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - F - K - I

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal
Second Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 1 star - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal
Third Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Liberation Medal

Class: Buckley      Type: TE (turbine-electric drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1,400 tons (std) 1,740 tons (full)   Dimensions: 306' (oa), 300' (wl) x 36' 9" x 13' 6" (max)
Armament: 3-3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1-1.1"/75 Mk2 quad AA (4x1), 8 x 20mm Mk 4 AA, 3 x 21" Mk15 TT (3x1),
1 Hedgehog Projector Mk10 (144 rounds), 8 Mk6 depth charge projectors, 2 Mk9 depth charge tracks
Machinery: 2 "D" Express boilers, G.E. turbines with electric drive, 12000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 knots   Range: 4,940 nm @ 12 knots   Crew: 15 / 198

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Philadelphia NSY on 22 February 1943
Launched 29 May 1943, Commissioned 21 September 1943
Reclassified APD-66, 21 January 1945, converted at the Boston NSY
Decommissioned 21 June 1946, Stricken 31 March 1978

Fate: Transferred to Ecuador 14 July 1967, renamed 25 de Julio (E-12)
stricken and scrapped in 1989

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Contributed By And/Or Copyright
	82k	29 May 1943: Philadelphia Naval Shipyard - The christening of six destroyer escorts in a dry-dock at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The three ships in the foreground are (from left): USS *Enright* (DE-216), USS *Coolbaugh* (DE-217) and USS *Darby* (DE-218). Those in the background are (from left), USS *J. Douglas Blackwood* (DE-219), USS *Francis M. Robinson* (DE-220) and USS *Solar* (DE-221). (US Navy Photo #NH 75610 from the U.S. Naval Historical Center, Courtesy of James Russell, 1972)		Bill Gonyo
	188k	undated wartime image		John Klar

View the USS Enright (DE-216 / APD-66), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

2003 Reunion Information Place: Albany, NY
Date: 5,6 and 7 September 2003
Contact: Paul E. Bielinski
Phone: (845) 246-8798
E-mail: USS Enright 2003 Reunion
Remarks: Phone contact after 28 September 2003
will be (850) 234-5722 x734

Note About Contacts

Contact information is compiled from various sources over a period of time and may, or may not, be correct. Every effort has been
made to list the newest contact. However, our entry is only as good as the latest information that's been sent to us. We list only
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Questions section on Navsource's Main Page for that information.

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