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USS Solar
Buckley-class destroyer escort (US Navy) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Solar (DE-221) (pronounced sō-lär), a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Boatswain's Mate First Class Adolfo Solar (1900–1941), who was killed in action during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.[1]
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![]() USS Solar (DE-221) in New York Harbor with a barge and harbor tug alongside. Photographed 22 July 1944, from a 300-foot altitude by a Naval Air Station New York aircraft. | |
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Name | Solar |
Namesake | BM1 Adolfo Solar |
Ordered | 1942 |
Laid down | 22 February 1943 |
Launched | 29 May 1943 |
Commissioned | 15 February 1944 |
Decommissioned | 21 May 1946 |
Stricken | 5 June 1946 |
Fate | Scuttled following ammunition explosion, 9 June 1946 |
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Class and type | Buckley-class destroyer escort |
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Length | 306 ft (93 m) |
Beam | 37 ft (11 m) |
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Speed | 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) |
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Complement | 15 officers, 198 men |
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Solar was laid down on 22 February 1943, by the Philadelphia Navy Yard; launched on 29 May 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Regina Solar; and commissioned at Philadelphia on 15 February 1944. The ship was destroyed by an accidental explosion on 30 April 1946.