- USS McAnn (DE-179)
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Career (United States) Name: USS McAnn Namesake: Donald Roy McAnn Builder: Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newark, New Jersey Laid down: 17 May 1943 Launched: 5 September 1943 Commissioned: 11 October 1943 Decommissioned: 15 August 1944 Struck: 20 July 1953 Fate: Leased to Brazil, 15 August 1944
Transferred to Brazil, 30 June 1953Career (Brazil) Name: Bauru (D-18) Acquired: 15 August 1944 Commissioned: 16 August 1944 Decommissioned: 1982 Homeport: Rio de Janeiro Fate: Museum ship General characteristics Class and type: Cannon-class destroyer escort Displacement: 1,240 long tons (1,260 t) standard
1,620 long tons (1,646 t) fullLength: 306 ft (93 m) o/a
300 ft (91 m) w/lBeam: 36 ft 10 in (11.23 m) Draft: 11 ft 8 in (3.56 m) Propulsion: 4 × GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6,000 shp (4,474 kW), 2 screws Speed: 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) Range: 10,800 nmi (20,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) Complement: 15 officers and 201 enlisted Armament: • 3 × single Mk.22 3"/50 caliber guns
• 1 × twin 40 mm Mk.1 AA gun
• 8 × 20 mm Mk.4 AA guns
• 3 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
• 1 × Hedgehog Mk.10 anti-submarine mortar (144 rounds)
• 8 × Mk.6 depth charge projectors
• 2 × Mk.9 depth charge tracksUSS McAnn (DE-179) was a Cannon-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and provided escort service against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys.
McAnn was named after Donald Roy McAnn who received the Navy Cross for his actions during the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands in 1942. The ship was laid down by Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newark, New Jersey, on 17 May 1943; launched on 5 September 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Ethel Marie McAnn; and commissioned at New York on 11 October 1943, Comdr. Charles F. Hooper in command.
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World War II Atlantic Ocean operations
After shakedown off Bermuda, McAnn operated along the east coast from Newport, Rhode Island, to Charleston, South Carolina, until 19 December 1943 when she departed Norfolk, Virginia, on a convoy escort run to the Panama Canal Zone. She reached Coco Solo on 26 December, thence sailed the 31st for duty out of Key West, Florida. Arriving there on 3 January 1944, she for the next several weeks with the Fleet Sound School and trained sailors in anti-submarine warfare techniques.
Assigned to Escort Division 24, McAnn sailed for the Caribbean on 29 February. Steaming via Trinidad, she joined Convoy TJ-25 on 5 March and screened the ships through stormy seas en route to Recife, Brazil. On the 15th she rescued the entire crew of 10 men from a B-17 Flying Fortress which had splashed off the Brazilian coast the day before. McAnn arrived Recife on 16 March.
Between 2 and 12 April McAnn cruised to Trinidad in the screen of Convoy JT-27, and during the next three months she completed three additional escort runs between the Caribbean and Brazil. She completed this duty on 12 July and four days later departed Recife as screen for Memphis (CL-13). She cruised the South Atlantic in search of German submarines until returning to Recife on 30 July.
End-of-War decommissioning
McAnn underwent an upkeep and then steamed to Natal, Brazil, arriving on 10 August. She decommissioned there on 15 August and was transferred, under lend lease, to Brazil on the same date. She was commissioned in the Brazilian Navy on 16 August as Bauru (D‑18). She served on loan with Brazilian Navy until 30 June 1953 when she was retransferred to Brazil, permanently, under the Mutual Defense Assistance Pact.
References
- This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
See also
External links
- Photo gallery of USS McAnn (DE-179) at NavSource Naval History
- NGB - Contratorpedeiro de Escolta/Aviso Oceânico Bauru - Be 4/D-18
United States Navy
CompletedCannon · Christopher · Alger · Thomas · Bostwick · Breeman · Burrows · Brazilian Navy
Free French Naval Forces
Other operators Republic of China Navy
Hellenic Navy†
Wild Beast classMarina Militare
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Royal Netherlands Navy
Bitter · Dubois · Van Amstel · Van Ewijck · Van Zijill · Zeeuw
Peruvian Navy
Philippine Navy
Datu Kalantiaw classDatu Kalantiaw (ex-Booth) · Datu Sikatuna (ex-Amick) · Rajah Humabon (ex-Atherton)
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† - Classed as destroyers by the Hellenic Navy
Preceded by: Buckley class · Followed by: Edsall class
List of destroyer escorts of the United States NavyCategories:- Cannon class destroyer escorts of the United States Navy
- Ships built in New Jersey
- 1943 ships
- World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States
- Cannon class destroyer escorts of the Brazilian Navy
- World War II frigates of Brazil
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