USS Satterlee (DD-626)
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Name | Satterlee |
Namesake | Charles Satterlee |
Builder | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
Laid down | 10 September 1941 |
Launched | 17 July 1942 |
Commissioned | 1 July 1943 |
Decommissioned | 16 March 1946 |
Stricken | 1 December 1970 |
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Class and type | Gleaves-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,630 tons |
Length | 348 ft 3 in (106.15 m) |
Beam | 36 ft 1 in (11.00 m) |
Draft | 11 ft 10 in (3.61 m) |
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Speed | 37.4 knots (69 km/h) |
Range | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 16 officers, 260 enlisted |
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USS Satterlee (DD-626) was a Gleaves-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She is the second Navy ship named for United States Coast Guard Captain Charles Satterlee.
Satterlee was
Service history
Satterlee escorted the British
In the first week of May 1944, Satterlee underwent training for a special mission assigned to her for the
Although the Rangers found that the battery's guns had been removed before the landings, German resistance was stiff, and Satterlee provided gunfire support for the rest of the day. Satterlee remained off the Normandy beaches for the next forty days, and then joined the invasion force which arrived off Saint-Tropez, southern France, on 15 August 1944. Here she helped repel a night attack of five German motor torpedo boats, sinking one from which she rescued 12 survivors.
Satterlee returned to the east coast in October 1944 for training at Casco Bay. In January and February 1945, she escorted the cruiser Quincy, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt embarked, on the Norfolk–Bermuda portion of his trip to and from the Yalta Conference. She next sailed for the Pacific, arriving at Pearl Harbor on 16 May 1945 for duty as a gunnery school ship. She also provided escort for the aircraft carriers Saratoga, Hancock, and Wasp during night and day flight operations off Hawaii.
On 4 July, Satterlee left Pearl Harbor and commenced air-sea rescue patrol duty between
Satterlee was decommissioned on 16 March 1946 and placed in reserve at Charleston, South Carolina. She was struck from the Navy list on 1 December 1970.
Satterlee received two
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.