USS Weiss (DE-378) | |
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Career (US) | |
Name: | Weiss |
Namesake: | Sergeant Carl W. Weiss (1915-1942), U.S. Marine Corps Navy Cross recipient |
Builder: | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas (proposed) |
Laid down: | Date unknown |
Launched: | Never |
Fate: | Construction cancelled 5 June 1944 |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | John C. Butler-class destroyer escort |
Displacement: | 1,350 tons |
Length: | 306 ft (93 m) |
Beam: | 36 ft 8 in (11 m) |
Draft: | 9 ft 5 in (3 m) |
Propulsion: | 2 boilers, 2 geared turbine engines, 12,000 shp; 2 propellers |
Speed: | 24 knots (44 km/h) |
Range: | 6,000 nmi. (12,000 km) @ 12 kt |
Complement: | 14 officers, 201 enlisted |
Armament: |
2 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 guns (2×1) 4 × 40 mm AA guns (2×2) 10 × 20 mm AA guns (10×1) 3 × 21 in. torpedo tubes (1×3) 8 × depth charge projectors 1 × depth charge projector (hedgehog) 2 × depth charge tracks |
The first USS Weiss (DE-378), was John C. Butler-class destroyer escort proposed for construction during World War II but never completed.
Weiss was named after United States Marine Corps sergeant Carl Walter Weiss, who was killed in action during a battle on 1 November 1942 with Japanese forces near the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal, when he charged an enemy machine gun position and destroyed it with a hand grenade. For "his great personal valor, aggressiveness and fine spirit of self sacrifice," Sergeant Weiss was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously.
Weiss was cancelled on 5 June 1944 before completion, and her materials were scrapped.
The name Weiss was reassigned to a Rudderow-class destroyer escort, USS Weiss (DE-719), which was converted during construction into the Crosley-class fast transport USS Weiss (APD-135).
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- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- NavSource Naval History: Destroyer Escorts, Frigates, Littoral Combat Vessels
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