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USS Edsall (DE 129)

Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign:
N - Z - B - S

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
American Campaign Medal - European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal w/1 star - WWII Victory Medal

Specifications:
Class: Edsall
Type: FMR (geared diesel, Fairbanks-Morse reverse gear drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1200 tons (light), 1590 tons (full)
Length: 300' (wl), 306' (oa)
Beam: 36' 10" (extreme)
Draft: 20' 6" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 4 Fairbanks-Morse Mod. 38d81/8 geared diesel engines, 4 diesel-generators, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 21 kts
Range: 9,100 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: 8 / 201

Edsall (DE 129) Building and Operational Data:

02 July 1942: Keel laid by the Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex.

01 November 1942: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Bessie Edsall Bracey, sister of Seaman Edsall

10 April 1943: Commissioned at the Orange City dock, Lcdr. E. C. Woodward in command

11 June 1946: Decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla. after 3 years and 2 months of service

01 June 1968: Struck from the NVR

July 1969: Sold for scrapping

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
0612906	225k	April 1943: Weighing anchor, aboard USS *Edsall* (DE 129) at Bermuda. *Edsall* departed the Naval Station, Algiers, La. on 05 May 1943. After a quick fueling stop at Miami, Fla. she arrived in Bermuda on 11 May. She conducted crew shakedown exercises until 06 June and headed for Boston Navy Yard. Commissioned on 10 April 1943, *Edsall* was a school ship at Norfolk, 20 June to 06 August 1943, training precommissioning crews of escort vessels, then at Miami with the Submarine Chaser Training Center thru March 1944. (Photographer Dmitri Kessel from the LIFE Magazine Archives)	Mike Green Port Angeles, Wash.
0612902	35k	May 1943	Bob Hurst Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
0612908	82k	1943: Two views of USS Edsall dropping depth charges during a training exercise. (Photographer Dmitri Kessel from the LIFE Magazine Archives)	Mike Green Port Angeles, Wash.
0612909	163k		Mike Green Port Angeles, Wash.
0612903	123k	Overhead shot of *Edsall* underway. Photo taken after the summer 1945 refit, carried out in preparation for transfer to Pacific theater.	-
0612904	170k	Undated Wartime Image (U.S. Navy Photo #BuShips44994 from the United States National Archives)	Nick Tiberio Shelton, Conn.
0612905	312k	undated: A starboard quarter view of *Edsall* taken at an unknown location. (U.S. Navy photo #CP-DE-129-19-N-44996 from the National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.; courtesy of Chris Wright)	Ed Zajkowski Narvon, Pa.
0612907	92k	04 August 1944: USS *Edsall* (DE 129) class leader starboard aerial view underway off the East Coast by an aircraft from Squadron ZP-12. *Edsall* carries Measure 32/3D camouflage scheme. She was enroute to the New York Navy Yard for a yard availability fron 05 - 14 August. (U.S. Navy Photo #80-G-453333 courtesy of C. Lee Johnson (usndazzle.com) from the United States National Archives)	Mike Green Port Angeles, Wash.

Edsall History
View the USS Edsall (DE 129) DANFS history entry located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.

Edsall's Commanding Officers
Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves

Dates of Command	Commanding Officers
1.) 10 Apr. 1943 - 09 Jul. 1943	Lcdr. Edwin Charles Woodward, USN (Comm. CO) (USNA ‘32) (Mendon, Vt.)
2.) 09 Jul. 1943 - 30 Oct. 1943	Lt. Sheldon Hoard Kinney, USN (USNA '41) (Pasadena, Cal.) (Ret. as Radm.)
3.) 30 Oct. 1943 - 14 Jan. 1944	Lcdr. Vernon Aaron Isaacs, USNR (Chicago, Ill.)
4.) 14 Jan. 1944 - 23 Apr. 1945	Lcdr. Malcolm R. MacLean, USNR (Easthampton, L.I., N.Y.)
5.) 23 Apr. 1945 - 02 Jan. 1946	Lcdr. William W. Yeomans, USNR
6.) 01 Feb. 1946 - 11 Jun. 1946	Lt.(jg) Frank E. Newman, USNR (Decomm. CO)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None

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Additional Resources

Tin Can Sailors
The U.S. Navy Memorial
Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
The Destroyer Escort Historical Museum
The Destroyer History Foundation
Tin Can Sailors Shipmate Registry - USS Edsall

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