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USS Alvin C. Cockrell (DE366)

Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - T - O - Q
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "White Russia"

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 - World War II Victory Medal
Second Row: Navy Occupation Service Medal - National Defense Service Medal w/ 1 star - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal

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: 11' 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

Alvin C. Cockrell (DE366) Building and Operational Data:

1 May 1944: Keel laid by the Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex.

27 June 1944: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. James A. Perkins, the sister of the late 1st Lt. Cockrell

7 August 1944: Commissioned, Lcdr Merrill M. Sanford, USNR, in command

2 July 1946: Decommissioned at San Diego, Cal.

27 June 1951: Recommissioned at San Diego, Cal., Lcdr Thomas R. Pearson in command, assigned to Escort Squadron (CortRon) 3

1 July 1958: Assigned to NRT, 12th Naval District at San Francisco, Cal.

17 January 1959: Decommissioned, placed "in service" as a unit of the Select Reserve ASW Force

May 1959: NRT homeport assignment changed to the Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Training Center at Alameda, Cal.

1 October 1961: Recommissioned for the Berlin Crisis, Cdr. Robert A. Bush in command, homeport assignment changed to Pearl Harbor, Hi.

1 August 1962: Decommissioned and placed "in service", NRT homeport assignment changed to San Francisco, Cal.

20 September 1968: Placed "out of service" at San Diego, Cal.

23 September 1968: Stricken

19 September 1969: Sunk as target off California

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
37k	USS *Alvin C. Cockrell* (DE366) departs San Diego, California in this undated photograph. Note "E" markings on both Mount 51 and 52, and the Escort Division insignia on her stack. (U.S. Naval Historical Centre Photo #USN1043597, Photo and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)	Robert Hurst
91k	date / location unknown	Robert Hurst
151k	October 1957, San Francisco Bay (Photo © Allied Photographers, San Francisco, Cal.)	Robert M. Cieri

View the USS Alvin C. Cockrell (DE366) DANFS history entry
located on the Naval History and Heritage Command website.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None

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