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USS Gantner
Buckley-class destroyer escort / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Gantner (DE-60/APD-42), a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Boatswain's Mate Samuel Merritt Gantner (1919-1941), who was killed in action during the Japanese attack on the Hawaiian Islands.
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Name | USS Gantner (DE-60) |
Namesake | Samuel Merritt Gantner |
Ordered | 1942 |
Builder | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts |
Laid down | 31 December 1942 |
Launched | 17 April 1943 |
Commissioned | 23 July 1943 |
Reclassified | APD-42, 23 February 1945 |
Decommissioned | 2 August 1949 |
Stricken | 15 January 1966 |
Fate | Transferred to the Republic of China, 22 February 1966 |
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Name | ROCS Wen Shan (DE-34) |
Acquired | 22 February 1966 |
Reclassified | PF-34 |
Reclassified | PF-834 |
Stricken | 1991 |
Fate | Broken up, 1992 |
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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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Gantner was launched on 17 April 1943 by the Bethlehem Steel Company, Quincy, Massachusetts, sponsored by Mrs. Samuel M. Gantner, widow of Boatswain's Mate Gantner; commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard on 23 July 1943.