USS Raymond (DE-341)

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History
United States
NameRaymond
NamesakeReginald Marbury Raymond
BuilderConsolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
Laid down3 November 1943
Launched8 January 1944
Commissioned15 April 1944
Decommissioned22 September 1958
Out of service31 May 1960
Stricken1 July 1972
Honors and
awards
FateSunk as target off Florida on 22 January 1974
General characteristics
Class and typeJohn C. Butler-class destroyer escort
Displacement1,350 long tons (1,372 t)
Length306 ft (93 m)
Beam36 ft 8 in (11.18 m)
Draft9 ft 5 in (2.87 m)
Propulsion
  • 2 boilers
  • 2 geared turbine engines
  • 12,000 shp (8,900 kW)
  • 2 propellers
Speed24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph)
Range6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement186
Armament

USS Raymond (DE-341) was a

battle stars to her credit, including credit for her striking a Japanese cruiser with her 5-inch (127 mm) guns during the Battle off Samar. The destroyer escort was named for Reginald Marbury Raymond, who was killed by enemy gunfire on 30 April 1943 aboard USS Scorpion.[1]

The second Navy ship to be named Raymond, she was

launched on 8 January 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Helen Raymond. The ship was commissioned
on 15 April 1944.

History

World War II

1944

Following

Netherlands East Indies. After returning to Manus, she supported air operations on 16 October against Leyte
, Philippine Islands.

On 25 October, she participated in the Battle off Samar during which she attacked Japanese ships, inflicting damage to a Japanese cruiser with her 5-inch guns. Shortly after the battle, she picked up survivors from the escort carrier St. Lo, which was sunk by a kamikaze.

1945

Returning to Manus and

antisubmarine screen for TU 50.8.24, Raymond supported the Iwo Jima campaign, arriving off Guam en route to Ulithi
on 3 March.

On 21 March, she sortied with TU 50.18.34, bound for

Operation Iceberg, Raymond performed escort and screening duties until mid-May 1945. She then resumed convoy escort duties and for the remainder of the war steamed between the Caroline and Ryukyu Islands
.

Post-War

Raymond served in occupied Japanese waters from 2–6 September, then returned to the United States, and in November entered the

Pacific Reserve Fleet
.

Decommissioned on 24 January 1947, Raymond was berthed at

Key West, Florida kept her in the western Atlantic until the summer of 1953, when she conducted a midshipman training cruise to Scandinavia
.

Returning to Newport for local operations on 1 September, she resumed her previous schedule and, interrupting them only for a second midshipman cruise, in the summer of 1954, continued operations off the eastern seaboard and in the Caribbean until 22 September 1958.

She was then decommissioned and placed in service. She continued her operations off the east coast into 1959. Placed in reserve on 31 May 1960 and berthed at

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she was struck from the Naval Vessel Register
on 1 July 1972.

Awards

Raymond earned five

battle stars for World War II service and the Presidential Unit Citation
for heroism in the Battle off Samar.

References
  1. ^ DANFS. Scorpion 5.

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