USS Eberle
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Name | USS Eberle |
Namesake | Edward Walter Eberle |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Laid down | 12 April 1939 |
Launched | 14 September 1940 |
Commissioned | 4 December 1940 |
Decommissioned | 3 June 1946 |
Stricken | 24 January 1951 |
Identification | DD-430 |
Fate | transferred to Greece, 22 January 1951 |
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Name | Niki |
Acquired | 22 January 1951 |
Stricken | 1972 |
Fate | Scrapped in 1972 |
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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 |
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Speed | 37.4 kn (69.3 km/h; 43.0 mph) |
Range | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 16 officers, 260 enlisted |
Armament |
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USS Eberle (DD-430) was a
Construction and career
Eberle was
After training in the Caribbean and along the East Coast, Eberle was assigned to patrol duty off Bermuda until the end of August 1941, when she began to escort convoys to Newfoundland, Iceland and far northern bases. She guarded the vital western Atlantic end of the lifeline to Britain before and after the US entry into the war. Once she reached Scotland. Returning to Norfolk, Virginia on 23 August 1942, she sailed two days later, escorting tankers by way of Galveston to Cristóbal and another convoy from Trinidad to Belém, and back to Norfolk 8 October.
Eberle sortied from Norfolk 25 October 1942 for the
After overhaul at
Eberle continued patrol and escort duty in the Mediterranean, then sailed from
Returning to
Convoys escorted
Convoy | Escort group | Dates | Notes |
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HX 150 | 17-25 Sept 1941[2] | from Newfoundland to Iceland prior to US declaration of war | |
ON 22
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7-15 Oct 1941[3] | from Iceland to Newfoundland prior to US declaration of war | |
HX 157 | 30 Oct-8 Nov 1941[2] | from Newfoundland to Iceland prior to US declaration of war | |
ON 35
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15-27 Nov 1941[3] | from Iceland to Newfoundland prior to US declaration of war | |
AT 18 | 6-17 Aug 1942[4] | troopships from New York City to Firth of Clyde |
Post World War II service
Eberle left Pearl Harbor 6 January 1946 and reached
Disposal and Greek service
Eberle arrived at Boston 21 January 1951, was
Eberle received three
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- ^ USS Admiral E. W. Eberle was another ship named for Adm. Eberle.
- ^ a b "HX convoys". Andrew Hague Convoy Database. Retrieved 2011-06-19.
- ^ a b "ON convoys". Andrew Hague Convoy Database. Retrieved 2011-06-19.
- ^ "AT convoys". Andrew Hague Convoy Database. Retrieved 2011-06-20.
External links
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