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USS Rhodes (DE 384)

Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - H - G - B
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "Southern Pride"

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Combat Action Ribbon - American Campaign Medal
Second Row: Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Third Row: Navy Occupation Service Medal - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary 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

Rhodes (DE 384) Building and Operational Data:

19 April 1943: Keel laid by the Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Tex.

29 June 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. C. E. Rhodes, mother of Lieutenant (junior grade) Rhodes

25 October 1943: Commissioned at the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co, dock by Cap't DeWitt C. Redgrave, USN, representing Com8th ND; Lcdr. E. A. Coffin, USCG, in command

13 June 1946: Decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla. after 2 years and 7⅔ months of service

July 1954: Commenced conversion to DER at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Va.

01 December 1954: Reclassified DER 384

01 August 1955: Recommissioned at Norfolk, Va., Lcdr. W. G. Sherwood, USN in command, assigned to the Atlantic Fleet Destroyer Force as a unit of Escort Squadron 18 at Norfolk, Va.

10 January 1956: Homeport reassigned to Melville, R.I. as a unit of the Atlantic Barrier Patrol

01 January 1961: Squadron assignment changed to Escort Squadron 16 at Newport, R. I.

10 July 1963: Decommissioned at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard after 7 years and 11⅓ months of service, custody transferred to CO, Philadelphia Group, U. S. Atlantic Reserve Fleet

01 August 1974: Struck from the NVR with a total of 10 years and 7 months of service

01 March 1975: Sold for scrapping to the Union Minerals and Alloys Corp., New York, N.Y.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
(0638411)	552k	29 May 1945: location unknown - These shots were taken just before *Rhodes* transferred from the Atlantic to the Pacific war zone. (All three are U.S. Navy photos from the National Archives, courtesy of Chris Wright)	Ed Zajkowski Narvon, Pa.
(0638412)	703k
(0638413)	859k
(0638402)	55k	12 July 1945: Taken at Attu, the Aleution Islands. (Photo © Howard J. Elet)	Howard J. Elet
(0638403)	55k	12 July 1945: Attu, the Aleution Islands (a differently cropped copy of the above photo)	Jim Plowden
(0638404a)	--k	A photo of Jim's Dad, Pete Plowden, USCG (click on photo to go to scrapbook pages)	Jim Plowden
(0638405)	303k	May 1960: Boston Naval Shipyard (Photo © Richard Leonhardt)	Richard Leonhardt Bethlehem, Pa.
(0638406)	64k	July 1961: Boston Naval Shipyard (Photo © Richard Leonhardt)	Richard Leonhardt Bethlehem, Pa.
(0638407)	104k	early '60's	Randy Kimes
(0638408)	44k	early '60's	Mike Keating (1961 - 1963)
(0638409)	76k	1962
(0638410)	96k	1962

Rhodes History
View the USS Rhodes (DE 384) DANFS history entry located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.
View the official War History of USS Rhodes as submitted by the ship at war's end.

Rhodes' Commanding Officers
Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler

Dates of Command	Commanding Officers
1.) 25 Oct. 1943 – 29 Dec. 1944	Lcdr. Eugene Auguste Coffin Jr., USCG (USCGA ‘33) (Comm. CO)
2.) 29 Dec. 1944 – 20 Aug. 1945	Lt. Austin Calvin Wagner, USCG (USCGA ‘42) (Mount Vernon, N. Y.) (ret. as Vadm.)
3.) 20 Aug. 1945 – 13 Jun. 1946	Lcdr. William Kehr Earle, USCG (USCGA ‘40) (Decomm. CO)
4.) 01 Aug. 1955 – 17 Jun. 1957	Lcdr. Wilbur Gordon Sherwood (Recomm. CO) (USNA ‘44) (Oakland, Cal.)
5.) 17 Jun. 1957 – 14 Mar. 1959	Lcdr. Christopher Clement Petroff, USN (Manchester, N. H.)
6.) 14 Mar. 1959 – 20 Jul. 1960	Lcdr. Herbert B. Cannon, USN
7.) 20 Jul. 1960 – 01 Jul. 1961	Lcdr. Roy Franklin Kleist, USN
8.) 02 Jul. 1961 – 10 Dec. 1962	Cmdr. John Van Tol, USN (prior enl. '44, NROTC '47) (Sheperdstown, W. V.)
9.) 10 Dec. 1962 – 10 Jun. 1963	Cmdr. Robert Francis Massimi, USN (USMM '44, OCS '51) (Boston, Mass.)
10.) 10 Jun. 1963 – 10 Jul. 1963	Lt. Stanley Hinden, USN (Decomm. CO)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name: Vincent Mannino
E-mail: Vincent Mannino

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