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DE-63 / APD-44 Ira Jeffery

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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Charles Lawrence Class High-speed Transport:
  • Laid down, 13 February 1943 as Jeffery (DE-63), a Buckley Class Destroyer Escort at Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, MA.
  • Launched, 15 May 1943
  • Renamed Ira Jeffery, 29 July 1943
  • Commissioned USS Ira Jeffery (DE-63), 15 August 1943, LCDR. R. A. Fitch in command
  • Converted to a Charles Lawrence Class High-speed Transport at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Redesignated (APD-44), 23 February 1945
  • Decommissioned, 18 June 1946, at Green Cove Springs, FL.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs
  • Struck from the Naval Register 1 June 1960
  • Final Disposition, sunk as a target 31 July 1962 by Sennet (SS-408), using an experimental Mark 16 torpedo, off the coast of Charleston S.C.,  approximately 200 nautical miles in a SE direction, at a depth of 2821 feet
    APD Specifications:
    Displacement 1,400 t.
    Length 306' ovl.
    Beam 37"
    Draft 12' 7" (limiting)
    Speed 23.6 kts. (trial)
    Range 6,000 nautical miles at 12 kts.
    Complement 12-15 Officers, 189-192 Enlisted
    Troop Accommodations 12 Officers, 150 Enlisted
    Boats 4 LCVP landing craft
    Troop Accoutrements
    six 1/4 ton trucks
    two 1 ton trucks
    four ammunition carts
    four pack howitzers
    Storage
    Ammunition 6,000 cu. ft.
    General Cargo 3,500 cu. ft.
    Gasoline 1,000 cu. ft.
    Armament
    one 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    three twin 40 mm gun mounts
    six single 20 mm gun mounts
    two depth charge tracks
    Propulsion 2 Combustion Engineering DR boilers, 2 GE Turbines, (turbo-electric drive), 2 shafts, Shaft horsepower 12,000
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