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Photo. www.navsource.org By Fred Weiss

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CLASS - CLEMSON

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Basic repeat Wickes Class, with 35% more fuel capacity to improve endurance problems, designed radius was 4900 nautical miles, at 15 knots.

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Displacement 1,215 Tons

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Dimensions, 314' 5" (oa) x 31' 8" x 9' 10" (Max)

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Armament 4 x 4"/50, 1 x 3"/23AA, 12 x 21" tt..

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Machinery, 26,000 SHP; Parsons Design Turbines, 2 screws.

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Speed, 35 Knots.

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Crew 114.

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For 6 months DD 228 JOHN D FORD ranged the North and South Atlantic from New York and Charleston, S.C., to Casablanca, French Morocco, and Recife, Brazil, protecting supply convoys from German U-boats. After ASW training late in December, she joined Guadalcanal ( CVE-60) out of Norfolk 5 January 1944 for hunter-killer activities operations in the Atlantic. The versatile destroyer supported the destruction of German submarine U-554, surprised and depth charged while refueling west of the Azores 16 January.

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After returning to the East Coast 16 February, John D. Ford cleared Norfolk 14 March for a convoy run to the Mediterranean. While at Gibraltar 29 March, she was damaged in a collision with a British tanker. Following repairs, she returned to Norfolk, arriving 1 May. Departing Norfolk 24 May for convoy duty to the Canal Zone, John D. Ford continued convoy patrols for almost a year from eastern seaboard ports to Recife, Reykjavik, and Casablanca

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