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USS Maloy (DE 791)

Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - Z - H - W
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "Eagle Farm"

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Navy Expeditionary Medal - American Campaign Medal - European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal w/ 1 star
Second Row: World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal w/ 1 star - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal

Specifications:
Class: Buckley
Type: TE (turbine-electric drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1400 tons (light), 1740 tons (full)
Length: 300' (wl), 306' (oa)
Beam: 36' 9" (extreme)
Draft: 10' 6" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 2 "D" Express boilers, G.E. turbines with electric drive, 12000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 kts
Range: 6,000 nm @ 12 knots
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
Complement: 15 / 198

Maloy (DE 791) Building and Operational Data:

10 May 1943: Keel laid by the Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., Orange, Tex.

18 August 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Thomas J. Maloy, widow of Chief Watertender Maloy

13 December 1943: Commissioned, Lt. Frederic D. Kellogg in command

Scheduled conversion to APD 83 cancelled

14 August 1946: Redesignated EDE 791, assigned to the Operational Development Force, New London Detachment

28 May 1965: Decommissioned at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard

1 June 1965: Stricken from the NVR

11 March 1966: Sold for scrapping to the North American Smelting Co. of Wilmington, Del.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
206k	1947: *Maloy* crew portrait. (Photo from the collection of RM2 Everett J. Jensen)	Gary A. Jensen
87k	Heading in or out of New London, Conn. before she got her variable depth sonar in 1956 (U.S. Navy photo)	J. Everett
26k	1961: *Maloy* shown coming out past the Underwater Sound Lab at Groton, Conn.	Jim Jackson crewmember 1960-1963
47k	22 May 1963 (U.S. Navy photo)	-

View the USS Maloy (DE 791) DANFS history entry
located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None

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Contact information is compiled from various sources over a period of time and may, or may not, be correct. Every effort has been
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Additional Resources

Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
Tin Can Sailors Shipmate Registry - USS Maloy
The Destroyer History Foundation

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