USS Brush
USS Brush underway on 22 May 1944
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Brush |
Namesake | Charles F. Brush |
Builder | Bethlehem Mariners Harbor |
Laid down | 30 July 1943 |
Launched | 28 December 1943 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Virginia Perkins |
Commissioned | 17 April 1944 |
Decommissioned | 27 October 1969 |
Stricken | 27 October 1969 |
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Honours and awards | See Awards |
Fate | Sold to Taiwan, 9 December 1969 |
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Taiwan | |
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Namesake | Hsiang Yang |
Acquired | 9 December 1969 |
Commissioned | 25 April 1970 |
Identification | Hull number: DD-1 |
Reclassified |
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Decommissioned | 1 September 1984 |
Stricken | 1984 |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer |
Displacement | 2,200 tons |
Length | 376 ft 6 in (114.76 m) |
Beam | 40 ft (12 m) |
Draft | 15 ft 8 in (4.78 m) |
Installed power | 60,000 shp (45,000 kW) |
Propulsion | 2 propellers; 2 steam turbines |
Speed | 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
Range | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 336 |
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USS Brush (DD-745), an
Construction and career
Brush (DD-745) was
World War II
On 30 August 1944 Brush arrived at
Serving with the
She arrived at
Korea
In May 1950 she was ordered to the Far East and entered Formosan waters as a unit of TF 77 on 29 June 1950. She screened the carrier units during the
Almost a year later Brush departed on her second Korean cruise. She stopped at Pearl Harbor for one month and then joined TF 77 for
Brush operated off the California coast until February 1953 when she commenced her third Korean cruise. She returned to the United States 30 August.
Brush conducted seven more Western Pacific deployments over the next decade (4 May – 5 December 1954; 30 June 1955 – 15 February 1956; 31 August 1957 – 1 March 1958; 25 October 1958 – 22 April 1959; 1 January – 28 July 1960; 29 July 1961 – 9 March 1962; 13 March – 1 October 1964), each involving carrier escort, ASW exercises and the occasional Formosa patrol. During the last 1964 deployment, Brush cruised in the Gulf of Tonkin as American intervention in Vietnam escalated.
Over the next five years, Brush conducted three Vietnam deployments (20 November 1965 – 13 May 1966; 8 April – 6 October 1967; 20 August 1968 – 4 March 1969), each marked by intensive patrol and gunnery operations in the South China Sea.
Brush was decommissioned and stricken from the register on 27 October 1969. She was subsequently sold to Taiwan on 9 December 1969.
The ship was renamed ROCS Hsiang Yang (DD-1) and commissioned on 25 April 1970
The ship's weapon system was gradually modified on the ship. In 1980, the serial number was changed to DD-986. But was later changed to DD-901.[1]
Decommissioned on 1 September 1984 and was later stricken the same year and transferred to Naval Weapons School.[1]
She was finally broken up for scrap.[1]
Awards
Brush received five
References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.