Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts
Laid down
22 February 1943 as Buckley-class destroyer escort
Launched
29 May 1943
Commissioned
24 July 1943
Reclassified
APD-76, 24 January 1945
Decommissioned
28 June 1949
Stricken
1 May 1967
Honors and awards
1 battle star (World War II)
Fate
Sold to Taiwan, February 1968
History
Taiwan
Name
ROCS Lung Shan (DE-44)
Acquired
February 1968
Reclassified
PF-44
Fate
Scrapped, 1976
General characteristics
Class and type
Buckley-class destroyer escort
Displacement
1,400 long tons (1,422 t) light
1,673 long tons (1,700 t) standard
Length
306 ft (93 m)
Beam
37 ft (11 m)
Draft
13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
Propulsion
2 × boilers
General Electric turbo-electric drive
12,000 shp (8.9 MW)
2 × solid manganese-bronze 3,600 lb (1,600 kg) 3-bladed propellers, 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) diameter, 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) pitch
2 × rudders
Speed
24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph)
Complement
213
Armament
3 × 3"/50 caliber guns
1 × quad 1.1"/75 caliber gun
8 × single 20 mm guns
1 × triple 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
8 × K-gun depth charge projectors
2 × depth charge tracks
USS Schmitt (DE-676) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort in the United States Navy, commissioned in 1943. In late 1944, she was converted to a high speed transport and was redesignated APD-76. She was retired in 1949 and transferred to the Republic of China Navy in 1969, where she served as ROCS Lung Shan (PF-44) until 1976, when she was scrapped.
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walk on the Moon. As he re-entered the Apollo Lunar Module after Harrison Schmitt on their third and final lunar excursion, he remains the most recent person...
2010. Weiser, Benjamin; Schmitt, Eric (6 October 2013). "U.S. Said to Hold Qaeda Suspect on Navy Ship". The New York Times. "USS San Antonio leaves Red...
the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. In addition, the cruiser USS Philippine Sea, the destroyers USS Gravely, and USS Mason, along with the...
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EST, 6.4 kilometers (4.0 mi) from the recovery ship, USS Ticonderoga. Cernan, Evans, and Schmitt were then retrieved by a recovery helicopter piloted...
British test pilot who set world records, dies at 97". The Washington Post. Schmitt, Eric; Gordon, Michael R. (22 February 2016). "Russia Wants Closer Look...
to the Eastern Mediterranean in response. Along with the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, the group includes the cruiser Normandy, and the destroyers...
aircraft carriers (the USS Carl Vinson, the USS Enterprise and USS Abraham Lincoln) and three destroyers (USS Momsen, USS Sterett, USS Halsey), seven British...
This included a Western Pacific deployment aboard the aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La. In January 1958, he entered a six-month test pilot training course...
within the Number Two 16-inch gun turret of the United States Navy battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) during a fleet exercise in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico...
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