Sunk as target off Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 20 December 1967
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 Fessenden (DE-142/DER-142) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys.
She was named in honor of Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, born in Brome County, Quebec, Canada, 6 October 1866. He served as head chemist with Thomas Edison's East Orange, New Jersey, laboratories. In 1890 he began concentrating on electrical engineering, and through the next years made many important inventions and improvements in existing devices. His great contributions in the field of radio (particularly the invention of radio-telephony were of marked benefit not only to the Navy but to all seamen. He died 22 July 1932, at his home on Bermuda.
Fessenden (DE-142) was launched 9 March 1943 by Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Texas; sponsored by Mrs. R. K. Fessenden, daughter-in-law of Professor Fessenden; and commissioned 25 August 1943. She was reclassified DER-142 on 1 October 1951.
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