USS Donald W. Wolf
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USS Donald W. Wolf (APD-129) was a Crosley-class high speed transport of the United States Navy, in service from 1945 to 1946. In 1965, she was transferred to the Republic of China Navy as ROCS Hua Shan (PF-33) and served until being struck and scrapped.
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Name | USS Donald W. Wolf (DE-713) |
Namesake | Donald W. Wolf |
Ordered | 1942 |
Builder | Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan |
Laid down | 17 April 1944 as Rudderow-class destroyer escort |
Reclassified | APD-129, 17 July 1944 |
Launched | 22 July 1944 |
Commissioned | 14 April 1945 |
Decommissioned | 15 May 1946 |
Stricken | 1 March 1965 |
Fate | Transferred to the Republic of China, 3 April 1965 |
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Taiwan | |
Name | ROCS Hua Shan (DE-33) |
Acquired | 3 April 1965 |
Reclassified | PF-33 |
Reclassified | PF-854 |
Reclassified | PF-833 |
Fate | Scrapped |
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Class and type | Crosley-class high speed transport |
Displacement | 1,450 long tons (1,473 t) |
Length | 306 ft (93 m) |
Beam | 36 ft 10 in (11.23 m) |
Draft | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
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Speed | 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) |
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Boats & landing craft carried | 4 × LCVPs |
Troops | 162 troops |
Complement | 204 (12 officers, 192 enlisted) |
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