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DE-215 / APD-65 Burke

Charles Lawrence Class High-speed Transport: Laid down as a Buckley Class Destroyer Escort at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia PA: Launched 3 April 1943; Commissioned USS Burke (DE-215), 20 August 1943; Converted to a Charles Lawrence Class High-speed Transport at Sullivan Dry Dock and Repair Corp., Brooklyn NY; redesignated (APD-65), 24 January 1945; Placed Out-of-Commission-in-Reserve 22 June 1949 at Charleston SC; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Charleston Group; Struck from the Naval Register 1 June 1968; Transferred to Columbia, 12 August 1968, renamed Almirante Brion; Struck from the Columbian Navy, 1974; Final Disposition, broken up for scrap.

Specifications: Displacement 1,400 t; Length 306' (oa); Beam 36' 10"; Draft 13' 6" (max); Speed 24 kts; Range 6,000 nautical miles at 12 kts; Complement 186; Troop Capacity 162; Boats 4 LCVP landing craft; Armament 1 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, 3 twin 40mm gun mounts, 8 single 20mm gun mounts, 2 depth charge tracks; Propulsion, 2 GE Turbines, (turbo-electric drive), 2 boilers 2 shafts, 12,000 shaft horsepower.
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