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USS DeLong (DE-684)


Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign:
N - T - Z - T
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "Bannister"
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Navy Expeditionary Medal
Second Row: American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal w/star
Class: Rudderow      Type: TEV (turbo-electric drive, long hull, 5" guns)
Displacement: 1,450 tons (std) 1,810 tons (full)    Dimensions: 306' (oa), 300' (wl) x 36' 11.5" x 13' 9" (max)
Armament: 2-5"/38 Mk30, 4 (2x2) 40mm Mk1 AA, 10 x 20mm/70 Mk 4 AA, 3 x 21" Mk15 TT (3x1),
1 Hedgehog Projector Mk10 (230 rounds), 8 Mk6 depth charge projectors (40), 2 Mk9 depth charge tracks (60)
Machinery: 2 CE boilers, G.E. turbines with electric drive, 12000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 knots   Range: 5,050 nm @ 12 knots   Crew: 12 / 192
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bethlehem Steel, Quincy MA on 19 October 1943, Launched 23 November 1943
Commissioned 31 December 1943
Planned conversion to APD-137 cancelled
Decommissioned January 1946, Recommissioned 7 February 1951
Assigned to NRT, 3rd Naval District at New York City, NY 3 January 1958
Decommissioned and placed "in service" as a unit of the Select Reserve ASW Force
Recommissioned in 1961 for the Berlin Crisis, Decommissioned and placed "in service" 1 August 1962
Placed "Out of Service 8 August 1969, Stricken 8 August 1969
Fate: Sunk as target off Puerto Rico 19 February 1970
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By And/Or Copyright
De Long 85k undated postwar image -
De Long 54k undated postwar image -
De Long 105k underway, circa the 1950's or early 1960's (NHC #98909) Mike Green
De Long 35k date / location unknown Robert Hurst
De Long 82k date / location unknown (late '50's, early '60's) Lon Finnerty
De Long 29k date / location unknown (late '50's, early '60's)
De Long 20k 1957: drydocked
De Long 124k 22 June 1958: Brooklyn NY - At the Brooklyn Navy yard, shortly before they started scrapping Enterprise (CV-6) by first cutting off her tripod mast; she was sold for scrapping 10 days later, on 2 July.  The carrier on the opposite side of the pier is USS Independence (CVA-62) nearing completion. Ships visible in the left foreground include (from front): USS DeLong (DE-684), USS Coates (DE-685) and USS Hoe (SS-258). Ten other destroyers are also present, as is a "Liberty" type ship.  The F. & M. Schaefer brewery is visible in the center background; the longest and last operating brewery in New York City (when it was closed in 1976), and America's oldest lager beer brewing company. Steve Whitby
DeLong
Memorabilia
Booklet Cover
DeLong
Courtesy of Lon Finnerty
View the USS DeLong (DE-684), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Contact Name: Juergen N. Peters
Address: 3206 Romilly Road / Wilmington DE 19810-3436
Phone: (302) 478-4353
E-mail: Juergen Peters
Or
Contact Name: Darrel Ruebsamen
Address:13315 Heights Path / San Antonio TX 78230-5866
Phone: (210) 492-1895
Note About Contacts

Contact information is compiled from various sources over a period of time and may, or may not, be correct. Every effort has been
made to list the newest contact. However, our entry is only as good as the latest information that's been sent to us. We list only
a contact for the ship if one has been sent to us. We do NOT have crew lists or rosters available. Please see the Frequently Asked
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Additional Resources
Darrel Ruebsamen's USS DeLong Site
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