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USS Rhodes (DE-384)


Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - H - G - B
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "Southern Pride"
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Combat Action Ribbon - American Campaign Medal
Second Row: Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Third Row: Navy Occupation Service Medal - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary 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 Brown Shipbuilding, Houston TX on 19 April 1943, Launched 29 June 1943
Commissioned 25 October 1943, Decommissioned 13 June 1946
Reclassified and converted DER 384, 28 October 1954
Recommissioned 1 August 1955, Decommissioned 10 July 1963
Stricken 1 August 1974
Fate: Sold on 1 March 1975 for scrapping to the Union Minerals and Alloys Corp., New York NY,
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By And/Or Copyright
Rhodes 55k 12 July 1945: Taken at Attu, the Aleution Islands © Howard J. Elet
Rhodes 95k May 1960: Boston Naval Shipyard © Richard Leonhardt
Rhodes 44k early '60's Mike Keating, (61-63)
Rhodes 104k early '60's Randy Kimes
Rhodes 76k 1962 Mike Keating, (61-63)
Rhodes 96k
Rhodes 64k July 1961: Boston Naval Shipyard © Richard Leonhardt
View the USS Rhodes (DE 384), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Contact Name: Vincent Mannino
E-mail: Vincent Mannino
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