 USS O'Flaherty off Boston, 8 June 1944
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | O'Flaherty |
| Namesake | Frank Woodrow O'Flaherty |
| Builder | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
| Laid down | 4 October 1943 |
| Launched | 14 December 1943 |
| Commissioned | 8 April 1944 |
| Decommissioned | January 1947 |
| Stricken | 1 December 1972 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 27 November 1973 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | John C. Butler-class destroyer escort |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 306 ft (93.3 m) (o/a) |
| Beam | 36 ft 10 in (11.2 m) |
| Draft | 13 ft 4 in (4.1 m) |
| Installed power | 2 boilers; 12,000 shp (8,900 kW) |
| Propulsion | 2 propellers; 2 geared steam turbines |
| Speed | 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph) |
| Range | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 14 officers and 201 enlisted men |
| Sensors and processing systems | |
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USS O'Flaherty (DE-340) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Ensign Frank Woodrow O'Flaherty, a pilot who posthumously received the Navy Cross for his actions at the Battle of Midway.
Laid down in October 1943, launched in December of that year, and commissioned almost four months later, O'Flaherty served on convoy escort duty in the Pacific from August 1944. She operated out of Pearl Harbor in the eastern Pacific during November and December, initially with a hunter-killer group. During the first half of 1945, O'Flaherty protected escort carriers in the invasion of Lingayen Gulf, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the Battle of Okinawa, which occurred in rapid succession. In the final months of the war in the Pacific, she returned to convoy escort duty. Decommissioned postwar, O'Flaherty spent more than twenty years in the Pacific Reserve Fleet before being sold for scrap in the early 1970s.
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