DE - USS Robert Brazier (DE-345)

DE - 345 USS Robert Brazier


Class: John C. Butler - escort torpedo boat


Shipyard: Consolidated Steel
construction started: 16.11.1943
Launched: 22.1.1944
commissioned: 18.5.1944


decommissioned: 9.1.1969 sunk as a target


length: 93.27 m
width: 11,2 m
draught: 2.9 m


Displacement
standard: 1 350 tonnes
maximum: 1 660 tonnes


Propulsion
turbines: 2 SR geared turbines
power: 12 000 shp
range: 5,500 n.miles / 11 knots
speed: 24 knots


Armament


2 x 127 mm ( 2 x I )


anti-aircraft armament
4 x 40 mm ( 2 x II )
10 x 20 mm ( 10 x I )


anti-submarine armament
2 x DCR depth charges
8 x DCT depth charge launcher
1 x Hedgehog


torpedo tubes
3 x 533 mm ( 1 x III )




Crew:
- max.: 200 men
- peacekeeping: 186 men



Hrbek Ivan, Hrbek Jaroslav: Boats of the States Participating in the Second World War, Naše Vojsko, Prague, 1994. ISBN


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