USS Schmitt
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USS Schmitt (DE-676) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort in the United States Navy, commissioned in 1943. In late 1944, she was converted to a high speed transport and was redesignated APD-76. She was retired in 1949 and transferred to the Republic of China Navy in 1969, where she served as ROCS Lung Shan (PF-44) until 1976, when she was scrapped.
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United States | |
Name | USS Schmitt (DE-676) |
Namesake | Aloysius Schmitt |
Ordered | 1942 |
Builder | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts |
Laid down | 22 February 1943 as Buckley-class destroyer escort |
Launched | 29 May 1943 |
Commissioned | 24 July 1943 |
Reclassified | APD-76, 24 January 1945 |
Decommissioned | 28 June 1949 |
Stricken | 1 May 1967 |
Honors and awards | 1 battle star (World War II) |
Fate | Sold to Taiwan, February 1968 |
History | |
Taiwan | |
Name | ROCS Lung Shan (DE-44) |
Acquired | February 1968 |
Reclassified | PF-44 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1976 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Buckley-class destroyer escort |
Displacement |
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Length | 306 ft (93 m) |
Beam | 37 ft (11 m) |
Draft | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph) |
Complement | 213 |
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