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USS Jesse Rutherford (DE 347)

Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - T - N - S

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 - Philippine Liberation Ribbon

Specifications:
Class: John C. Butler
Type: WGT (geared-turbine drive, 5" guns)
Displacement: 1350 tons (light), 1745 tons (full)
Length: 300' (wl), 306' (oa)
Beam: 36' 10" (extreme)
Draft: 111' 0" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 2 "D" Express boilers, 2 geared turbine engines, 12,000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 kts
Range: 6,000 nm @ 12 knots
Armament: 2 - 5"/38 cal. DP guns (2x1), 4 - 40mm AA (2x2), 10 - 20mm AA, 3 - 21" TT, 1 Mk10 Hedgehog, 8 Mk6 Depth Charge Projectors, 2 Mk9 Depth Charge Stern Racks
Complement: 14 / 201

Jesse Rutherford (DE 347) Building and Operational Data:

22 November 1943: Keel laid at Consolidated Steel Co., Orange, Tex.

29 January 1944: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Mary Rutherford, mother of Private Jesse Rutherford, Jr., USMC

31 May 1944: Commissioned at Orange, Tex., Lcdr. B. M. Henry in command

21 June 1946: Decommissioned at San Diego, placed in the Pacific Reserve Fleet at Bremerton, Wash. after 2 years and 1 month of service

01 January 1968: Struck from the NVR

08 December 1968: Sunk as a target off California

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
29k	undated wartime image	Jerry Church
147k	Photos which were made available to crewmembers as momentos (Photos by Thompson Photos, Los Angeles, Cal.)	Seth Cohen / John Chiquoine
93k		Seth Cohen / John Chiquoine
147k	circa 1945: Port bow view of USS Jesse Rutherford (DE 347) at anchor, at an unknown location. (U.S. Naval Historical Center photo #NH 74291 Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1971, from the Naval History and Heritage Command)	Mike Green Port Angeles, Wash.

Jesse Rutherford History
View the USS Jesse Rutherford (DE 347) DANFS history entry located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.
View the official War History of USS Jesse Rutherford as submitted by the ship at war's end.

Jesse Rutherford's Commanding Officers
Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves

Dates of Command	Commanding Officers
1.) 31 May 1944 - 09 Sep. 1944	Lcdr. Barklie McKee Henry, USNR (Comm. CO) (Ventnor City, N.J.)
2.) 09 Sep. 1944 - 13 Dec. 1945	Lcdr. Jack Weaver Jordan, USNR (Portland, Me.)
3.) 13 Dec. 1945 - 21 Jun. 1946	Lcdr. William Clement Shreve, USN (Decomm. CO) (San Diego, Cal.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None

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Additional Resources

Tin Can Sailors
The U.S. Navy Memorial
Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
The Destroyer Escort Historical Museum
The Destroyer History Foundation
Tin Can Sailors Shipmate Registry - USS Jesse Rutherford

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