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USS Koiner (DE331)

Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - H - E - C
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "Crystal Lake"

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
Second Row: European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal
Third Row: National Defense Service Medal w/ 1 star - Vietnam Service Medal w/ 6 stars - Republic of Vietnam Campaign 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

Koiner (DE331) Building and Operational Data:

26 July 1943: Keel laid at the Consolidated Steel Co., Orange, Tex.

5 September 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Mae H. Koiner, the mother of Lt. (j.g.) Koiner

27 December 1943: Commissioned, Lcdr C. S. Judson, Jr., in command

4 October 1946: Decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla.

20 June 1951: Loaned to USCG and Recommissioned WDE431

14 May 1954: Returned USN and Decommissioned

28 October 1954: Reclassified and converted DER331

26 August 1955: Recommissioned, Lcdr V. W. Tracy in command, assigned to the Continental Air Defense System in the Pacific Barrier

1 July 1965: Homeport assignment changed to Agana, Guam

23 September 1968: Decommissioned and Stricken

3 September 1969: Sold for scrapping

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
104k	24 May 1945	Thomas F. Connors MoMM 1/C
70k	24 May 1945
73k	26 July 1944
31k	As US Coast Guard WDE431	-
143k	26 August 1955: Mare Island NSY, Vallejo CA - Commissioning ceremonies of USS *Koiner* (DER331). (U.S. Navy photo #DER 331 26355-8-55)	Darryl Baker
143k	circa 1956 (U.S. Navy Photo from "Jane's Fighting Ships, 1956 - 57")	Robert Hurst
51k	Late 1950's	Mike Sheen (USS Koiner 1959-1961)
56k	3 June 1963	Thomas F. Connors MoMM 1/C
102k	1965: San Francisco Navy Yard - *Koiner* and *Atlanta* (IX304) lie across the pier from *Ticonderoga* (CVA14). (From the USS Ticonderoga (CVA 14) Cruise Book, 1965-66)	Gene McCallister

View the USS Koiner (DE331) DANFS history entry
located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None

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