USS McAnn
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United States | |
Name | USS McAnn |
Namesake | Donald Roy McAnn |
Builder | Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newark, New Jersey |
Laid down | 17 May 1943 |
Launched | 5 September 1943 |
Commissioned | 11 October 1943 |
Decommissioned | 15 August 1944 |
Stricken | 20 July 1953 |
Fate |
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Brazil | |
Name | Comandante Bauru (D-18, U-28, Be-4) |
Acquired | 15 August 1944 |
Commissioned | 16 August 1944 |
Decommissioned | 1982 |
Homeport | Rio de Janeiro |
Status | Museum ship |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Cannon-class destroyer escort |
Displacement |
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Length |
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Beam | 36 ft 10 in (11.23 m) |
Draft | 11 ft 8 in (3.56 m) |
Propulsion | 4 × GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6,000 shp (4,474 kW), 2 screws |
Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
Range | 10,800 nmi (20,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 15 officers and 201 enlisted |
Armament |
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USS McAnn (DE-179) is a retired Cannon-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and provided escort service against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys. She was transferred to the Brazilian Navy in 1944 and renamed as Bauru. She is now a museum ship preserved at the Brazilian Navy Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro.
Namesake
Donald Roy McAnn was born on 23 June 1911 in
Construction and commissioning
The ship was laid down by
World War II Atlantic Ocean operations
After shakedown off Bermuda, McAnn operated along the east coast from Newport, Rhode Island, to Charleston, South Carolina, until 19 December 1943 when she departed Norfolk, Virginia, on a convoy escort run to the Panama Canal Zone. She reached Coco Solo on 26 December, thence sailed the 31st for duty out of Key West, Florida. Arriving there on 3 January 1944, she for the next several weeks with the Fleet Sound School and trained sailors in anti-submarine warfare techniques.
Assigned to
Between 2 and 12 April McAnn cruised to Trinidad in the screen of Convoy JT-27, and during the next three months she completed three additional escort runs between the Caribbean and Brazil. She completed this duty on 12 July and four days later departed Recife as screen for Memphis (CL-13). She cruised the South Atlantic in search of German submarines until returning to Recife on 30 July.
Transfer and Brazilian service
McAnn underwent an upkeep and then steamed to
References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
- Photo gallery of USS McAnn (DE-179) at NavSource Naval History
- NGB – Contratorpedeiro de Escolta/Aviso Oceânico Bauru – Be 4/U-28/D-18 Archived 23 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine