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Courtesy of Mike Smolinski

Courtesy of Mike Smolinski

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USS Marsh (DE-699)

CLASS: Buckley TYPE: TE (turbine-electric drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1,400 tons (std) 1,740 tons (full) Dimensions: 306' (oa), 300' (wl) x 36' 9" x 13' 6" (max)
Armament: 3 x 3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1 x 1.1"/75 Mk2 quad AA (4x1), 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: 2 "D" Express boilers, G.E. turbines with electric drive, 12000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 knots Range: 4,940 nm @ 12 knots Crew: 15 / 198

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Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Defoe Shipbuilding, Bay City MI on 23 June 1943
Launched 25 September 1943, Commissioned 12 January 1944
Decommissioned 15 August 1958, Placed "In Service" and
Assigned as NRT ship, 12th Naval District at Long Beach CA
Recommissioned 15 December 1961 due to the Berlin Crisis,
Decommissioned 1 August 1962 and placed back "In Service"
Taken "Out of Service", Stricken 15 April 1973

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Fate: sold for scrapping 20 February 1974

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Contributed By And/Or Copyright
	111k	A later bow view of Marsh, which illustrates the divergence of naval staff views between the RN and USN at war's end, in dealing with the fast U-boats. While the RN went in for the Squid mortars, the USN relied on the Hedgehog, and here two are fitted side by side in the B position. [US Navy photo, from the book "Allied Escort Ships of World War II (A Complete Survey)", by Peter Elliott]		Edib Krlicbegovic, Bosnia - Hercegovina
	51k	One of the floating power stations, Marsh of the 'Buckley' type. Taken in Hawaii, this shows the power points in place of the torpedo tubes, a new type bridge and postwar radar aerials at the masthead. [US Navy photo, from the book "Allied Escort Ships of World War II (A Complete Survey)", by Peter Elliott]		Edib Krlicbegovic, Bosnia - Hercegovina
	24k	undated Korean War news clipping		Jon & Kari Stacy
	147k	September 1957, San Francisco Bay (© Allied Photographers, San Francisco CA)		Robert M. Cieri
	90k	25 August 1959		US Navy photo

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View the USS Marsh (DE-699), DANFS history entry
located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site.

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information

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