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U.S.S. CRONIN

(DE-704)

ABOVE THE WAVES
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DE-704 Deployments - Major Events

Add a DE-704 Shellback Initiation Add a DE-704 Deployment - Major Event
Month Year to Month Year Deployment / Event
OCT1943-Keel Date: 19 OCT 1943
at Defoe Shipbuilding Company Bay City MI
JAN1944-Launch Date: 5 JAN 1944
MAY1944-Commissioned: 5 MAY 1944
JAN1946-MAY1946Decommisioning
NOV1950-AUG1954Middle Pacific
FEB1951-JUN1953Recommisioning
FEB1951-SEP1953Recommissioned as DEC 704
DEC1953-Decommissioned: 4 DEC 1953

DE-704 General Specifications

Class: Buckley-class destroyer escort

Complement: 15 Officers and 198 Enlisted

Displacement: 1400 tons

Length: 306 feet

Beam: 37 feet

Draft: 9.5 feet

Range: 3 700 nautical miles

Final Disposition: Sunk as target December16 1971