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USS Price (DE 332)


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


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
Second Row: European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal w/ 1 star - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation 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
Price (DE 332) Building and Operational Data:
  • 24 August 1943: Keel laid at the Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex.
  • 30 October 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Ray P. Reynolds
  • 12 January 1944: Commissioned, Lcdr J. W. Higgins, Jr., USNR, in command
  • 16 May 1947: Decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla.
  • 21 October 1955: Reclassified and converted DER 332 at the New York Naval Shipyard,, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • 1 August 1956: Recommissioned at New York City, N.Y., assigned to CortRon 18 at Newport, R.I.
  • 30 June 1960: Decommissioned at Orange, Tex.
  • 1 August 1974: Stricken from the NVR
  • 12 March 1975: Sold for scrapping
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    Price 60k Edward Max Price, born in Richmond, Va., 20 June 1916, was appointed Midshipman 16 July 1935, commissioned Ensign 1 June 1939, and promoted to Lieutenant (j.g.) 1 November 1941. He served on board aircraft carrier Lexington (CV 2) and was killed in action in the Battle of the Coral Sea on 8 May 1942.

    USS Price (DE 332) (1944-1960) was the first ship to be named in his honor.

    (Photo from the US Naval Academy Yearbook; The Lucky Bag, Class of 1939.)    		 Bill Gonyo
    Price 82k 1 August 1956: Brooklyn Naval Shipyard - Recommissioning Cermony Thomas C. Goff, 56-57
    View the USS Price (DE 332) DANFS history entry
    located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    Contact Name: Gil Murphy
    Address: 5822 New Paris Way / Ellenton FL 34222
    E-mail: price332@aol.com
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    Additional Resources
    Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
    Tin Can Sailors Shipmate Registry - USS Price
    The Destroyer History Foundation
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