USS Lester
Dealey-class destroyer escort / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Lester (DE-1022) (1957–1973) was a United States Navy Dealey-class destroyer escort, named after Fred Faulkner Lester, a Navy Corpsman who was killed in action while assigned to the United States Marine Corps during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II. He was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroic actions on 8 June 1945.
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Name | USS Lester |
Namesake | Fred Faulkner Lester |
Builder | Defoe Shipbuilding Company |
Laid down | 2 September 1954 |
Launched | 5 January 1956 |
Commissioned | 14 June 1957 |
Decommissioned | 14 December 1973 |
Stricken | 14 December 1973 |
Homeport | Naval Station Newport, RI |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 18 June 1974 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Dealey-class destroyer escort |
Displacement | 1,877 long tons (1,907 t) full load |
Length | 314 ft 6 in (95.86 m) |
Beam | 36 ft 9 in (11.20 m) |
Draft | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
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Speed | 26 knots (30 mph; 48 km/h) |
Range | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 12 kn (14 mph; 22 km/h) |
Complement | 12/161 |
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Lester was laid down at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan, on 2 September 1954; launched on 5 January 1956, sponsored by Mrs. Fred W. Lester, mother of Hospital Apprentice First Class Fred F. Lester. The ship was commissioned on 14 June 1957 and decommissioned in 1973.[1]