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U.S.S. DARBY
(DE-218)PRIMA BELLO - PRIMA PACE
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DE-218 Deployments - Major Events
Add a DE-218 Shellback Initiation | Add a DE-218 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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FEB | 1943 | - | Keel Date: 22 FEB 1943 at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard | ||
MAY | 1943 | - | Launch Date: 29 MAY 1943 | ||
NOV | 1943 | - | Commissioned: 15 NOV 1943 | ||
OCT | 1950 | - | OCT | 1950 | Recommisioning |
OCT | 1950 | - | Shellback Initiation - 21 OCT 1950 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
AUG | 1952 | - | OCT | 1952 | North Atlantic |
JAN | 1958 | - | APR | 1958 | South America |
JAN | 1958 | - | JAN | 1959 | South America |
OCT | 1961 | - | JUL | 1962 | Cuban missile crisis interrogation patrol 1962 Windward Pasage |
JUL | 1964 | - | JUL | 1964 | Mediterranean |
AUG | 1964 | - | AUG | 1964 | Mediterranean |
DE-218 General Specifications
Class: Buckley-class destroyer escort
Named for: Marshall E. Darby
Complement: 15 Officers and 198 Enlisted
Displacement: 1400 tons
Length: 306 feet
Beam: 37 feet
Flank Speed: 23 knots
Range: 3 700 Nautical Miles
Final Disposition:Sunk as a target 24 May 1970