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History
United States
Namesake
Eugene Blair
Builder
Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
Laid down
19 January 1943
Launched
6 April 1943
Commissioned
13 September 1943
Decommissioned
15 June 1960
Reclassified
DER-147, 2 December 1957
Stricken
1 December 1972
Fate
Sold 26 September 1974 for scrap
General characteristics
Class and type
Edsall-class destroyer escort
Displacement
1,253 tons standard
1,590 tons full load
Length
306 feet (93.27 m)
Beam
36.58 feet (11.15 m)
Draft
10.42 full load feet (3.18 m)
Propulsion
4 FM diesel engines,
4 diesel-generators,
6,000 shp (4.5 MW),
2 screws
Speed
21 knots (39 km/h)
Range
9,100 nmi. at 12 knots
(17,000 km at 22 km/h)
Complement
8 officers, 201 enlisted
Armament
3 × single 3 in (76 mm)/50 guns
1 × twin 40 mm AA guns
8 × single 20 mm AA guns
1 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
8 × depth charge projectors
1 × depth charge projector (hedgehog)
2 × depth charge tracks
USS Blair (DE-147) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946 and from 1951 to 1960. She was scrapped in 1974. Blair was named in honor of Chief Machinist's Mate Eugene Blair, who was awarded the Silver Star posthumously for his brave actions when his ship was attacked and bombed by Japanese planes near Port Darwin, Australia, in mid-February 1942.
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