USS Doyle (DMS-34)

History
United States
Name	Doyle
Namesake	Richard Doyle
Builder	Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation
Laid down	26 May 1941
Launched	17 March 1942
Commissioned	27 January 1943
Identification	DD-494
History
Reclassified	DMS-34, 23 June 1945
Decommissioned	19 May 1955
Stricken	1 December 1970
Fate	Sold 6 October 1972 and; broken up for scrap;
General characteristics
Class and type	Gleaves-class destroyer
Displacement	1,630 tons
Length	348 ft 3 in (106.15 m)
Beam	36 ft 1 in (11.00 m)
Draft	11 ft 10 in (3.61 m)
Propulsion	50,000 shp (37,000 kW); 4 boilers; 2 propellers;
Speed	37.4 knots (69 km/h)
Range	6,500 nautical miles (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	16 officers, 260 enlisted
Armament	5 × dual purpose guns; 6 × 0.50 in (12.7 mm) guns; 6 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons; 10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes, ; 2 × depth charge tracks;

USS Doyle (DD-494/DMS-34), was a Gleaves-class destroyer of the United States Navy.

Namesake

Richard Doyle entered the Navy on board the

Stephen Decatur, Jr., which entered the harbor of Tripoli and destroyed the captured U.S. frigate USS Philadelphia on 16 February 1804 during the First Barbary War. Doyle later served on the frigate USS John Adams and died 27 June 1807 while serving on the sloop-of-war USS Wasp

.

Construction and commissioning

Doyle was

Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Co., Seattle, Washington; sponsored by Mrs. C. M. Maloney. The ship was commissioned

on 27 January 1943.

Service history

World War II

Doyle reached

antisubmarine operations and training exercises and cruised to the Caribbean in the screen of the escort carrier Bataan

.

Doyle put out from

invasion of Normandy. On 5 June, she sortied with the 31st Minesweeping Flotilla to clear the assault area. She gave fire support to the landing forces on D-Day, 6 June, received on board 37 survivors of LCIs

93 and 487, and served on patrol until returning to Plymouth on 15 July for brief overhaul.

Sailing 1 August 1944 for

Marseilles

until 21 September when she sailed for the United States, arriving at New York 3 October for overhaul.

Doyle made three more voyages to escort convoys to

San Francisco

on 31 March 1946. Thereafter, she operated on the west coast and in the western Pacific 18 August 1947 to 19 April 1948.

Korean War

On 30 June 1950, five days after the

LST broached and stranded. Doyle screened the 2-day rescue near Changsadong

.

After brief overhaul at Sasebo, Doyle sailed on 29 September 1950 to sweep

underwater demolition team from Diachenko, then was assigned to clear the approaches to Wonsan Harbor. She continued operations in the Wonsan area, as well as sweeping in the Hungnam area, acting as fire-support ship for Korean landings at Suwon Dan

on 3 November, and directing a check sweep of Wonsan by Japanese sweepers from 12 to 17 November until returning to Sasebo 20 November.

Doyle continued to operate from Sasebo to Korean waters, sweeping a special fire-support area used to cover the emergency evacuation from Hungnam between 2 and 23 December 1950. She returned to San Diego 4 March 1951, and after overhaul resumed local operations on the west coast. Doyle served again in United Nations operations in Korean waters between 5 October 1951 and 8 August 1952. She returned to the western Pacific between 2 February and 21 July 1953, visiting

Kwajalein, and various ports in the Philippines, as well as serving as station ship at Hong Kong

for five weeks.

Doyle arrived at

Mediterranean with the 6th Fleet between 5 January and 27 May 1954 before going into reserve, in commissioned status, in October 1954. Doyle was placed out of commission in reserve 19 May 1955 at Orange, Texas

. Sold for scrap 6 October 1972.