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USS Edgar G. Chase

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USS Edgar G. Chase (DE-16) in San Francisco Bay, in 1943
History
United States
NameUSS Edgar G. Chase (DE-16)
BuilderMare Island Navy Yard
Laid down14 March 1942
Launched26 September 1942 as HMS Burges (BDE-16)
Commissioned20 March 1943 as USS Edgar G. Chase (DE-16)
Decommissioned16 October 1945
Stricken1 November 1945
FateSold for scrap on 18 March 1947
General characteristics
Class and typeEvarts-class destroyer escort
Displacement
  • 1,140 (standard)
  • 1,430 tons (full)
Length
  • 283 ft 6 in (86.4 m) (waterline)
  • 289 ft 5 in (88.21 m) (overall))
Beam35 ft 2 in (10.7 m)
Draft11 ft (3.4 m) (max)
Propulsion
Speed21 kn (39 km/h)
Range4,150 nm
Complement15 officers, 183 enlisted
Armament

USS Edgar G. Chase (DE-16) was an Evarts-class "short-hull" destroyer escort in the service of the United States Navy named after Edgar Griffith Chase, executive officer of a destroyer lost at Guadalcanal in 1942.

Edgar G. Chase was launched on 26 September 1942 by Mare Island Navy Yard, Solano County, California as HMS Burges (BDE-16); sponsored for British Lend-Lease by Mrs. Ernest H. Wichels, but retained by the USN and assigned the name Edgar G. Chase on 19 February 1943; and commissioned 20 March 1943.

Service history

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World War II

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Edgar G. Chase reported to the Submarine chaser Training Center at Miami, Florida, 4 June 1943, and for the next year trained student officers and patrolled off Florida. After a voyage in August 1944 from Norfolk, Virginia, to Recife, Brazil, screening Tripoli, and returning with Solomons. Edgar G. Chase sailed from New York on 19 September with a slow-moving convoy for England. With bad weather, the passage took a month; she got back to Norfolk on 22 November.

Edgar G. Chase made three voyages as convoy escort from New York and Norfolk to Oran from 19 December 1944 – 30 May 1945.

On 20 July, she returned to Miami, Florida, and her original training duty with the Small Craft Training Center.

Post-War

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She arrived at Charleston, South Carolina on 9 September and was decommissioned there on 16 October 1945, being sold for scrap on 18 March 1947.

Awards

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American Campaign Medal
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
World War II Victory Medal

References

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Public Domain This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

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