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USS Stockdale (DE-399)


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


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: American Campaign Medal
Second Row: Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal w/ 1 star - World War II Victory 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 31 August 1943, Launched 30 October 1943
Commissioned 31 December 1943, Decommissioned 18 April 1947
Stricken 1 July 1972
Fate: Sunk as target off Florida, 24 May 1974
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Stockdale 51k Lewis Stevens Stockdale was born on 20 September 1914 at Anaconda, Montana. He enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve on 9 September 1940 as an apprentice seaman. After serving in cruiser Quincy (CA-39), Stockdale was appointed midshipman in the Naval Reserve on 17 March 1941 and was commissioned ensign on 12 June 1941. Ensign Stockdale reported to Oklahoma (BB-37) on 19 July 1941 and was killed while serving in that battleship during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. The second Stockdale (DE-399) was named for Ens. Stockdale.)

USS Stockdale (DE-399) was the first ship named in his honor.

(Photo from The Official Web Site of the USS Oklahoma BB-37 thanks to Kevin King)		 Bill Gonyo
Stockdale 66k 1944: New York Harbor (in memory of my father, Paul E. Rutherford (died 1981), who served in Stockdale as a sonarman) David Rutherford
View the USS Stockdale (DE-399), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
None
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