USS Fieberling
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Fieberling |
| Namesake | Langdon K. Fieberling |
| Builder | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco |
| Laid down | 19 March 1944 |
| Launched | 2 April 1944 |
| Commissioned | 11 April 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 13 March 1948 |
| Stricken | 1 March 1972 |
| Honors and awards | 1 battle star (World War II) |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 20 November 1972 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Buckley-class destroyer escort |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 306 ft (93 m) |
| Beam | 36 ft 9 in (11.20 m) |
| Draft | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph) |
| Range | 4,940 nmi (9,150 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 15 officers, 198 men |
| Armament |
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USS Fieberling (DE-640) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1948. She sold for scrap in 1972.
History
Namesake
The ship was named in honor of Langdon Kellogg Fieberling, born on 3 January 1910 in
Torpedo Squadron 8, and when this unit was activated, served with it on the USS Hornet. When the Hornet sailed to undertake the Doolittle Raid in May 1942 half of VT-8 remained at Naval Station Norfolk in order to replace their obsolescent Douglas TBD Devastators with Grumman TBF Avengers
.
The 21 aircraft detachment reached
Navy Cross.[2]
Pacific War
Fieberling was
Bethlehem Steel Co., San Francisco, California; sponsored by Mrs. C. A. Fieberling, mother of Lieutenant Fieberling; and commissioned
on 11 April 1944.
Fieberling arrived at
operation until 3 September. Five days later she sailed for Manus Island, arriving 27 September. Until 15 December, she sailed out of Port Purvis on Florida Island in the Solomons on escort and air-sea rescue duty, then served as station ship at Funafuti
until 17 February 1945.
After amphibious landing rehearsals at
Saipan between 9 and 29 April, Fieberling returned to Okinawa for patrol, escort, and radar picket
duty until 28 June.
Fieberling operated on escort duty between
decommissioned
on 13 March 1948 and placed in reserve at San Diego.
Stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 March 1972, Fieberling was sold for scrap on 20 November of that same year.
Awards
Fieberling received one
battle star for World War II
service.
References
- ISBN 0-7868-6783-3.
Twenty-Five Yards of War.
- OCLC 2794587.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to USS Fieberling (DE-640).
- Photo gallery of USS Fieberling at NavSource Naval History
