- USS Hemminger (DE-746)
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Career (USA) Name: USS Hemminger Namesake: Cyril Franklin Hemminger Builder: Western Pipe and Steel Company, Los Angeles, California Laid down: 8 May 1943 Launched: 12 September 1943 Commissioned: 30 May 1944 Decommissioned: 17 June 1946 Recommissioned: 1 December 1950 Decommissioned: 21 February 1958 Struck: 3 September 1974 Fate: Loaned to Thailand, 22 July 1959 Career (Thailand) Name: HTMS Pin Klao (DE-1) Acquired: 22 July 1959 Decommissioned: 30 September 2008 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
• 3 × 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 Hemminger (DE-746) was a Cannon-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II. She served in the Pacific Ocean and provided escort service against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys. She was named in honor of Cyril Franklin Hemminger who was killed during the Battle of Savo Island.
The ship was launched on 12 September 1943 by the Western Pipe and Steel Company, San Francisco, California; sponsored by Mrs. Sue Frances Hemminger, widow; and commissioned on 30 May 1944, Lt. Comdr. J. R. Bodler, USNR, in command.
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World War II Pacific Theatre operations
Shakedown completed, Hemminger reached Pearl Harbor in August 1944 to train submarines for war patrols. She also patrolled between Pearl and Eniwetok and worked in hunter-killer anti-submarine operations. On 28 February 1945 while on a HUK mission with Corregidor (CVE-58) and CortDiv 53, the destroyer escort was diverted to participate in the fruitless search for Lieutenant General Millard F. Harmon, Commander Army Air Forces Pacific, whose plane had disappeared. After patrol duty in the Marshall Islands, Hemminger sailed on 30 April to escort a resupply convoy to Okinawa, where battle still raged. From 16 May to 20 June, she acted as screen for a carrier group engaged in neutralization of Sakishima Gunto and supported ground forces on Okinawa as well as the air attack on Kyūshū.
Transfer to the Atlantic
Hemminger joined CortDiv 53 and Kassan Bay (CVE-69) for further hunter-killer patrol around Guam and Eniwetok until sailing for the Philippines on 27 September. Detached from the Pacific Fleet, Hemminger reached Norfolk, Virginia, on 2 December via Saipan, Pearl Harbor, San Diego, California, and the Panama Canal. Training out of Green Cove Springs, Florida, occupied Hemminger until she decommissioned there on 17 June 1946 and went into reserve.
Recommissioning for reserve training
After a period of duty with the reserve training program, Hemminger recommissioned at Norfolk, Virginia, on 1 December 1950. In the following years her career assumed a pattern of local operations along the coast punctuated by reserve training cruises to Canada and the Caribbean. One reserve cruise in June 1952 took Hemminger to Lisbon, Portugal, while others saw her at Rouen, France; Barranquilla, Colombia; Cadiz, Spain, and New Orleans, Louisiana.
Hemminger also participated in several fleet exercises and worked with the Turkish submarine Little Creek, Virginia, on 23 November 1957 she reported to New York Naval Shipyard for inactivation. Hemminger decommissioned there on 21 February 1958 and joined the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. She was loaned to Thailand on 22 July 1959 under the Military Assistance Program, and served the Royal Thai Navy as HTMS Pin Klao (DE-1) until her decommissioning on 30 September 2008.[1]
Awards
American Campaign Medal Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal World War II Victory Medal National Defense Service Medal References
- This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- ^ "อาลัย ร.ล.ปิ่นเกล้า เรือครู ลูกประดู่ไทย" (in Thai), Kom Chad Luek, 21 July 2008.
See also
External links
- Photo gallery of USS Hemminger (DE-746) at NavSource Naval History
United States Navy CompletedCannon · Christopher · Alger · Thomas · Bostwick · Breeman · Burrows · Brazilian Navy
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List of destroyer escorts of the United States NavyCategories:- Cannon class destroyer escorts of the United States Navy
- Ships built in San Francisco, California
- 1943 ships
- World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States
- United States Navy ships transferred to the Royal Thai Navy
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