USS Kendall C. Campbell
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Namesake | Kendall C. Campbell |
Laid down | 16 December 1943 |
Launched | 19 March 1944 |
Commissioned | 31 July 1944 |
Decommissioned | 31 May 1946 |
Stricken | 15 January 1972 |
Fate | Sold for scrapping 15 January 1973 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 1,350 long tons (1,372 t) |
Length | 306 ft (93 m) (oa) |
Beam | 36 ft 10 in (11.23 m) |
Draught | 13 ft 4 in (4.06 m) (max) |
Propulsion | 2 boilers, 2 geared steam turbines, 12,000 shp, 2 screws |
Speed | 24 knots |
Range | 6,000 nm @ 12 knots |
Complement | 14 officers, 201 enlisted |
Armament | 2- 5 in (130 mm)
4 (2×2) AA 10-20 mm AA 3- 21 inch (533 mm) TT
1 Hedgehog
8 DCT's, 2 DC tracks |
USS Kendall C. Campbell (DE-443) was a
Kendall C. Campbell was named in honor of
Service history
Kendall C. Campbell was launched 19 March 1944 by the
Kendall C. Campbell departed New York 20 August 1944 for shakedown exercises off Bermuda. Ten days later she departed Norfolk, Virginia, transited the Panama Canal, and arrived Pearl Harbor 30 October. The destroyer escort was assigned to hunter-killer operations out of Hawaii with Corregidor and performed this duty until she sailed for Ulithi 24 November. She immediately commenced ASW patrols designed to keep the supply lanes to the Marianas and Western Carolines open.
Anxiously awaiting her first major encounter, Campbell put to sea 1 January 1945, and sortied with the
The destroyer escort sailed 21 March accompanying
As the war moved closer to the enemy homeland, on 26 June Campbell joined the Logistics Support Group, which operated northeast of
Kendall C. Campbell departed Japan 4 November, arriving
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
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