The USS SAVAGE was a Destroyer Escort vessel, (Edsall Class) a type designed to replace Fleet Destroyers in protecting convoys against attacks by hostile aircraft and submarines. They were neither as heavy or as fast as destroyers, but were much more maneuverable and versatile. They were said to be able to "turn on a dime."
(DE-386) Specs
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The SAVAGE was equipped with her own laundry, sick bay, and refrigeration facilities. She had evaporators for a continual supply of fresh water, and could generate enough electric power for lighting all of Seward, Alaska.
She was one of thirty Navy Destroyer Escorts which were manned by senior Coast Guard officers, and men of the United States Coast Guard during the Second World War. These ships were formed into five escort divisions consisting of six DE's each.
Escort Division 23 included: USS MILLS (DE-383), USS RAMSDEN (DE-382), USS RICHEY (DE-385), USS RHODES (DE-384), USS SAVAGE (DE-386), and the USS SELLSTROM (DE-255).
[Source: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Published by the Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, Washington, D. C. (1976).]
Walter Samuel Savage, Jr.
Brown Shipbuilding Yard, Houston, Texas
30 April, 1943
15 July, 1943
30 October, 1943
13 June, 1946
18 February, 1955
17 October, 1969
01 June, 1975
Sunk as target off California, 25 October, 1982
Edsall-class Destroyer Escort
1,253 tons standard 1,600 tons full load
306 feet
36.7 feet
12 feet, 3 inches full load
4 Fairbanks Morse Model 38d81/8 geared diesel engines (2 per shaft)
4 diesel-generators
6,000 shp (4.5 MW)
2 screws
21 knots
9,100 nautical miles (NMI) at 12 knots
8 officers, 201 enlisted
279 tons
3 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 guns (3×1)
2 × 40 mm AA guns (1×2)
8 × 20 mm AA guns (8×1)
3 × 21 in. torpedo tubes (1×3)
8 × depth charge projectors
1 × depth charge projector
2 x depth charge tracks
[3"/50 caliber gun]
[Bofors 40 mm gun]
[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon]
[Mark 15 torpedo]
[depth charge]
[hedgehog weapon]
