Dealey class destroyer escort

USS Dealey (DE-1006)
Class overview
Operators:	United States Navy  Uruguayan Navy  Colombian Navy
Preceded by:	John C. Butler class destroyer escort
Succeeded by:	Claud Jones class destroyer escort
Built:	1952–1957
In commission:	1954–1994
Completed:	13
Preserved:	1
General characteristics
Type:	Destroyer escort
Displacement:	1,270 long tons (1,290 t)
Length:	314 ft 6 in (95.86 m)
Beam:	36 ft 9 in (11.20 m)
Draft:	18 ft (5.5 m)
Propulsion:	2 × Foster-Wheeler boilers 1 × De Laval geared turbine 20,000 shp (15 MW) 1 shaft
Speed:	25 knots (29 mph; 46 km/h)
Complement:	170
Armament:	• 4 × 3"/50 caliber guns • 4 × 533 mm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes • 2 × ASW torpedo racks • 2 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar • 2 × DCT (K-guns)

The Dealey class destroyer escorts were the first post-World War II escort ships built for the United States Navy.

Slightly faster and larger than the escort destroyers of the previous era, they were fitted with twin-mounted 3 inch guns, ASW rockets, a depth charge rack and 6 depth charge launchers. There were later modernizations that removed the ASW rockets and the depth charges in favor of nuclear-capable anti-submarine rocket launchers and torpedo mounts which fired lighter homing torpedoes.

They were decommissioned in 1972 and 1973 in favor of the Knox class frigate. USS Dealey (DE-1006) and USS Hartley (DE-1029) were sold at surplus to other countries in 1972, with the remainder of the class being sold for scrap.

Ships

Name	Number	Builder	Commissioned- Decommission	Fate
Dealey	DE-1006	Bath Iron Works	1954-1972	Transferred to Uruguay as ROU 18 De Julio (DE-3)
Cromwell	DE-1014	Bath Iron Works	1954-1972	Sold for scrap
Hammerberg	DE-1015	Bath Iron Works	1955-1973	Sold for scrap
Courtney	DE-1021	Defoe Shipbuilding	1956-1973	Sold for scrap
Lester	DE-1022	Defoe Shipbuilding	1957-1972	Sold for scrap
Evans	DE-1023	Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging	1957-1968	Sold for scrap
Bridget	DE-1024	Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging	1957-1968	Sold for scrap
Bauer	DE-1025	Bethlehem Steel, Alameda	1957-1973	Sold for scrap
Hooper	DE-1026	Bethlehem Steel, Alameda	1958-1968	Sold for scrap
John Willis	DE-1027	New York Shipbuilding	1957-1972	Sold for scrap
Van Voorhis	DE-1028	New York Shipbuilding	1957-1972	Sold for scrap
Hartley	DE-1029	New York Shipbuilding	1957-1972	Sold to Colombia as ARC Boyaca (DE-16)
Joseph K. Taussig	DE-1030	New York Shipbuilding	1957-1972	Sold for scrap

See also

Media related to Dealey class destroyer escorts at Wikimedia Commons

• Oslo class frigate - Norwegian ship class based on the Dealey
• Pereira da Silva class frigate - Portuguese ship class based on the Dealey

External links

• Dealey-class ocean escorts at Destroyer History Foundation