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History
United States
Namesake
Holloway Halstead Frost
Builder
Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
Laid down
13 January 1943
Launched
21 March 1943
Commissioned
30 August 1943
Decommissioned
18 June 1946
Stricken
1 April 1965
Honours and awards
7 battle stars and the Presidential Unit Citation
Fate
Sold 29 December 1966, scrapped
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 Frost (DE-144) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946. She was scrapped in 1966.
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anti-submarine mortar, but the submarine submerged and escaped. Assisted by USSFrost, Stanton quickly gained sonar contact with the submarine and made three...
escape, and was sunk four months later in another engagement with USSFrost and USS Inch. For his quick reaction in defence of the national seas, Captain...
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