USS Whitehurst, DE-634

Saw the movie, 'The Enemy Below' again.

Yes, very Hollywood and silly. Today, some would label the last scene with Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens as a 'bro-mance'.

However, this time, a first: on a big, hi-res wall monitor, the USS Whitehurst looked beautiful.

Class and type: Buckley-class destroyer escort

Displacement:
1,400 long tons (1,422 t) standard
1,740 long tons (1,768 t) full load
Length: 306 ft (93 m)
Beam: 37 ft (11 m)
Draft:
9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) standard
11 ft 3 in (3.43 m) full load
Propulsion:
2 × boilers
General Electric turbo-electric drive
12,000 shp (8.9 MW)
2 × solid manganese-bronze 3,600 lb (1,600 kg) 3-bladed propellers, 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) diameter, 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) pitch
2 × rudders
359 tons fuel oil
Speed: 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph)
Range:
3,700 nmi (6,900 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph)
6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement: 15 officers, 198 men
Armament:
3 × 3"/50 caliber guns
1 × quad 1.1"/75 caliber gun
8 × single 20 mm guns
1 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
8 × K-gun depth charge projectors
2 × depth charge tracks

Hedgehogs were not shown in the movie. Otherwise, it would have been a very short movie.


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