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USS Hemminger (DE 746)


Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - Z - W - N
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 - WWII Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal
Class: Cannon      Type: DET (diesel-electric tandem motor drive, long hull, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1,240 tons (std) 1,620 tons (full)   Dimensions: 306' (oa), 300' (wl) x 36' 10" x 11' 8" (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 GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 21 knots   Range: 10,800 nm @ 12 knots   Crew: 15 / 201
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Western Pipe, San Pedro CA on 8 May 1943, Launched 12 September 1943
Commissioned 30 May 1944, Decommissioned 17 June 1946
Recommissioned 1 December 1950, Decommissioned 21 February 1958
Stricken 3 September 1974
Fate: to Thailand 22 July 1959, renamed HTMS Pin Klao (DE-1)
still in service as of 2004
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Hemminger 116k undated wartime image Bud Taylor
Hemminger 98k WWII photo, looking down on bow Robert Taylor
Hemminger 66k WWII photo, looking aft toward bridge Robert Taylor
Hemminger 52k Hemminger and USS Tills (DE 748) in drydock, no date or location Robert Taylor
Hemminger 198k undated postwar image, Hemminger off the Virginia coast David Buell
Hemminger 99k 1959: USS Hemminger shortly after she was turned over to the Royal Thai Navy. Robert Taylor
Hemminger 62k HTMS Pinklao (DE-3) underway, circa 1966 / location unknown Robert Hurst
Hemminger 41k 1998: Serving as a training ship with the Royal Thai Navy, Pinklao (413). Bud Taylor
Hemminger 115k 1 October 2004: Phachunlachomkloa Naval Dockyard - HTMS Pinklao (413) lies moored. Nye Nava
Hemminger 118k 1 October 2004: Phachunlachomkloa Naval Dockyard - HTMS Pinklao (413) lies moored. Nye Nava
View the USS Hemminger (DE 746), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Contact Name: M. Edward Arnold
Address: 3235 Ames Avenue / Kingman AZ 86401
Phone: (928) 692-9190
E-mail: DD547@citlink.net
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