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USS Snowden (DE 246)


Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - W - T - J
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "Terryville"
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Combat Action Ribbon - Navy Expeditionary Medal - American Campaign Medal w/ 1 star
Second Row: European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal w/ 2 stars - 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
Snowden (DE 246) Building and Operational Data:
  • 7 December 1942: Keel laid by the Brown Shipbuilding Co., Inc., Houston, Tex.
  • 19 February 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Halford R. Greenlee
  • 23 August 1943: Commissioned, Lcdr A. Jackson, Jr., USNR, in command
  • March 1946: Decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla.
  • 6 June 1951: Recommissioned, assigned to the Atlantic Fleet Destroyer Force homeported at Newport, R.I.
  • February 1960: Assigned to NRT, 4th Naval District at Philadelphia, Pa.
  • August 1960: Decommissioned, placed "in service" as a Group II unit of the Select Reserve ASW Force
  • 2 October 1961: Recommissioned for the Berlin Crisis, assigned to the Atlantic Fleet Destroyer Force homeported at Key West, Fla.
  • 1 August 1962: Decommissioned and placed back "In service" at Philadelphia, Pa.
  • 23 September 1968: Placed "Out of Service" at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Stricken from the NVR
  • 27 June 1969: Sunk as target off Newport, R.I.
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    Snowden 39k undated wartime image DESA archives
    Snowden 34k circa 1959: USS Snowden (DE 246), her are crew at quarters, ready for leaving port. Snowden's pole mast has been modified to carry her post-war electronic antennas. (U.S. Navy Photo, Photo and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships) Robert Hurst
    View the USS Snowden (DE 246) DANFS history entry
    located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    Contact Name: James E. McKelva ('61 - '62)
    E-mail: James McKelva
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    Additional Resources
    Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
    Tin Can Sailors Shipmate Registry - USS Snowden
    The Destroyer History Foundation
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