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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
Specifications:
Class: Buckley
Type: TE (turbine-electric drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1400 tons (light), 1740 tons (full)
Length: 300' (wl), 306' (oa)
Beam: 36' 9" (extreme)
Draft: 10' 6" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 2 "D" Express boilers, G.E. turbines with electric drive, 12000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 kts
Range: 6,000 nm @ 12 knots
Armament: 3 x 3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1 twin 40mm Mk1 AA, 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
Complement: 15 / 198
Enright (DE 216) Building and Operational Data:
  • 22 February 1943: Keel laid at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, South Philadelphia, Pa.
  • 29 May 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Katherine L. Enright, mother of Ensign Enright
  • 21 September 1943: Commissioned, Lcdr A. Wildner, USN, in command
  • 21 January 1945: Reclassified APD 66, converted at the Boston Naval Shipyard
  • 21 June 1946: Decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla.
  • 31 March 1978: Stricken
  • 14 July 1967: Transferred to Ecuador, renamed 25 de Julio (E-12), stricken and scrapped in 1989
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    Enright 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
    Enright 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.

    Enright's Commanding Officers
    Thanks to the USS Enright Web Site
    21 September 1943 to 9 March 1944     Lcdr / Cdr Adolph Wildner, USN (Norfolk, Va.)
    9 March 1944 to 15 June 1944     Lcdr E.C. Hoglund, USNR (Springfield, Ma.)
    15 June 1944 to 21 July 1944     Lcdr John H. Church, USNR (Cape May, N.J.)
    21 July 1944 to 3 March 1945     Lcdr A.B. Bradley, Jr., USNR (Winnetka, Ill.)
    3 March 1945 to February 1946     Lcdr William F. Folkes, Jr., USNR (Norfolk, Va.)
    February 1946 to 21 June 1946     Lt.(jg) Marvin E. Van Vleck (hometown unknown)
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    Next Reunion:
    8 September 2009 at Yorktown, Va.
    Contact: Albert Green
    Address: 280 Prospect Ave. #10-b / Hackensack NJ 07601
    Phone: (201) 488-7032
    E-mail: marting222@gmail.com
    or
    E-mail: USS Enright Web Site
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    Additional Resources
    USS Enright Web Site
    Navsource APD Pages, Enright
    Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
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