USS Charles J. Kimmel (DE 584)

[Scott Schnabel]

My father's ship during WWII.

 

Class: Rudderow
Type: TEV (turbo-electric drive,
long hull, 5" guns)
Displacement: 1,450 tons (light), 1,810
tons (full)
Length: 300' (wl), 306' (oa)

Beam: 36' 9" (extreme)
Draft: 13' 9" (draft
limit)
Propulsion: 2 CE boilers, G.E. turbines with electric
drive, 12000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 kts

Range: 5,050 nm @ 12 knots
Armament: 2 -
5"/38 Mk30, 4 - 40mm Mk1 AA (2x2), 10 x 20mm/70 Mk 4 AA, 3 x 21" Mk15 TT (3x1),
1 Hedgehog Projector Mk10 (230 rounds), 8 Mk6 depth charge projectors (40), 2
Mk9 depth charge tracks (60)
Complement: 12 / 192

 

• 1 December 1943: Keel laid by the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Mass.
• 15 January 1944: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. C. J. Kimmel
• 20 April 1944: Commissioned, Lcdr F. G. Storey, Jr., USNR, in command
• 15 January 1947: Decommissioned at San Diego, Cal.
• 30 June 1968: Stricken from the NVR
• 13 November 1969: Sunk as target off California,