USS Farquhar (DE-139)

History
United States
Name	USS Farquhar
Namesake	Norman von Heldreich Farquhar
Builder	Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
Laid down	14 December 1942
Launched	13 February 1943
Commissioned	5 August 1943
Decommissioned	14 June 1946
Stricken	1 October 1972
Honours and; awards	1 battle star for World War II service
Fate	Scrapped 1974
General characteristics
Class and type	Edsall-class destroyer escort
Displacement	1,253 tons standard; 1,590 tons full load;
Length	306 feet (93.27 m)
Beam	36.58 feet (11.15 m)
Draft	10.42 full load feet (3.18 m)
Propulsion	4 FM diesel engines,; 4 diesel-generators,; 6,000 shp (4.5 MW),; 2 screws;
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h)
Range	9,100 nmi. at 12 knots; (17,000 km at 22 km/h);
Complement	8 officers, 201 enlisted
Armament	3 × single 3 in (76 mm)/50 guns; 1 × twin 40 mm AA guns; 8 × single 20 mm AA guns; 1 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes; 8 × depth charge projectors; 1 × depth charge projector (hedgehog); 2 × depth charge tracks;

USS Farquhar (DE-139) was an

U.S. Navy

from 1943 to 1946. She was scrapped in 1974.

History

The ship was named in honor of

Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., Orange, Texas

; sponsored by Miss S. B. Carton, great-granddaughter of Admiral Farquhar; and commissioned 5 August 1943.

Battle of the Atlantic

Farquhar arrived at

submarines

in the general area through which the convoy sailed.

Returning to New York 9 June 1944, Farquhar trained in

Bahia, Brazil, to Dakar, French West Africa, and Cape Town, Union of South Africa, and during a submarine hunt off the Cape Verde

Islands on 30 September, made a contact against which she and her sisters operated 6 days, finally sighting a large oil slick, but no other evidence of a sunken submarine.

During training exercises off Cuba in December 1944, Farquhar rescued 10 aviators from liferafts after their patrol bomber splashed, and while in

depth charges, set shallow, and both she and her sisters could make no further contact with the target. Post-war evaluation revealed that she had been the last American ship to sink a submarine in the Atlantic in World War II, sending U-881

to the bottom.

Farquhar prepared at Boston and Guantanamo Bay for duty in the Pacific, and arrived at

Kwajalein

early in January 1946 for the U.S. East Coast.