USS Edgar G. Chase
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Name | USS Edgar G. Chase (DE-16) |
Builder | Mare Island Navy Yard |
Laid down | 14 March 1942 |
Launched | 26 September 1942 as HMS Burges (BDE-16) |
Commissioned | 20 March 1943 as USS Edgar G. Chase (DE-16) |
Decommissioned | 16 October 1945 |
Stricken | 1 November 1945 |
Fate | Sold for scrap on 18 March 1947 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Evarts-class destroyer escort |
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Length |
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Beam | 35 ft 2 in (10.7 m) |
Draft | 11 ft (3.4 m) (max) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 21 kn (39 km/h) |
Range | 4,150 nm |
Complement | 15 officers, 183 enlisted |
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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
[edit]World War II
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]![]() | American Campaign Medal |
![]() | European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal |
![]() | World War II Victory Medal |
References
[edit] This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
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- Photo gallery of Edgar G. Chase at NavSource Naval History