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USS Sturtevant (DE 239)


Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - H - A - O
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: American Campaign Medal
Second Row: European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal
Specifications:
Class: Edsall
Type: FMR (geared diesel, Fairbanks-Morse reverse gear drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1200 tons (light), 1590 tons (full)
Length: 300' (wl), 306' (oa)
Beam: 36' 10" (extreme)
Draft: 20' 6" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 4 Fairbanks-Morse Mod. 38d81/8 geared diesel engines, 4 diesel-generators, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 21 kts
Range: 9,100 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: 8 / 201
Sturtevant (DE 239) Building and Operational Data:
  • 15 July 1942: Keel laid by the Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Tex.
  • 3 December 1942: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. William North Sturtevant
  • 16 June 1943: Commissioned, Lcdr Frederick W. Hawes in command
  • 24 March 1946: Decommissioned at Green Cove springs, Fla.
  • 3 August 1951: Recommissioned, Comdr. R. B. Redmayne in command
  • 31 October 1956: Decommissioned, conversion to DER commenced at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
  • 1 November 1956: Reclassified DER 239
  • 5 October 1957: Recommissioned as DER 239
  • June 1960: Decommissioned
  • 1 December 1972: Stricken from the NVR
  • 20 September 1973: Sold for scrapping to the National Metal & Steel Co., Terminal Island, Cal.
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    Sturtevant 63k Albert D. Sturtevant was born in Washington, D.C., on 2 May 1894. On 24 March 1917, he and 28 others enlisted in the Naval Reserve Forces as the First Yale Unit. Two days later, they were all commissioned ensigns. After flight training in Florida, he was designated a naval aviator on 1 May 1917 and, in September, he received orders for overseas duty. Ensign Sturtevant reported to the group attached to the Royal Flying Corps station at Felixstowe, England, in October.

    Sturtevant's duties consisted of flying escort for merchantmen crossing the North Sea. On 15 February 1918, while flying an escort mission with another plane of his unit, the two American were jumped by a flight of 10 German planes. Sturtevant's companion recognized the hopelessness of the 5-to-l odds and escaped to safety, but Sturtevant gamely fought it out with the enemy. When last seen, Ensign Sturtevant was hit and crippled, falling toward the sea. For his heroic actions, he was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously.

    USS Sturtevant (DE 239) was the second ship to be named in his honor, she was preceded by DD 240 (1920-1942).

    (Photo #ggbain 26285 from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)    		 Bill Gonyo
    Sturtevant 71k undated wartime image DESA Archives
    Sturtevant 95k undated post war image Richard O. Armstrong
    Sturtevant 72k March 1954: aboard the USS Sturtevant - HMC Lowell L. Lundberg, USN, gives a heat lamp treatment to SKSN David L. Quinlant. (U.S. Navy Photo #80-G-636917 from the National Archives) Bill Gonyo
    View the USS Sturtevant (DE 239) DANFS history entry
    located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    Contact Name: Robert E. Lee, Jr.
    Address: 3203 Lakewood Ave. / Columbia SC 29201-1433
    Phone:(803) 256-9485
    E-mail: Robert Lee
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    Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
    Tin Can Sailors Shipmate Registry - USS Sturtevant
    The Destroyer History Foundation
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