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USS Pride (DE-323)

Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - T - L - U

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive)
Second Row: American Campaign Medal - European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal w/ 3 stars - WWII Victory Medal

Class: Edsall      Type: FMR (geared diesel, Fairbanks-Morse reverse gear drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1,200 tons (std) 1,590 tons (full)   Dimensions: 306' (oa), 300' (wl) x 36' 10" x 12' 3" (max)
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
Machinery: 4 Fairbanks-Morse Mod. 38d81/8 geared diesel engines, 4 diesel-generators, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 21 knots   Range: 9,100 nm @ 12 knots   Crew: 8 / 201

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Consolidated Steel, Orange TX on 12 April 1943, Launched 3 July 1943
Commissioned 13 November 1943, Decommissioned 26 April 1946
Loaned to USCG and Recommissioned WDE-423, 20 July 1951
Returned USN and Decommissioned 1 June 1954
Stricken 2 January 1971

Fate: Sold for scrapping 30 January 1974

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
7k	Lewis Bailey Pride, Jr., born at Miami, Fla. 22 April 1919, was appointed Midshipman from Kentucky 23 June 1937. He was commissioned an Ensign 7 February 1941, and reported on board *Oklahoma* 13 March 1941. He was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941.) USS *Pride* (DE-323) was the first ship named in his honor. (Photo from The Official Web Site of the USS Oklahoma BB-37 thanks to Kevin King)	Bill Gonyo
80k	1944: The Mediterranean Sea	David Buell
162k	1944: The Mediterranean Sea
120k	1944: The Mediterranean Sea
144k	1944: The Mediterranean Sea
236k	1944: *Pride* nested with other DE's in an unknown Mediterranean port
95k	*Mattole* (AO-17) refueling *Pride* by the astern method, 17 August 1944. *Newell* (DE-322) is approaching from the far right. (US National Archives Photo # 80-G-245464, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.)	Robert Hurst
36k	February / March 1945: underway in the North Atlantic	Andy Cisternino RM1c USGC

View the USS Pride (DE-323), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None

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Additional Resources

USS Pride Scrapbook of William Valencheck
Destroyer Escort Sailors Association

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