U S NAVY 4th FLEET AT RECIFE - SHIP INDEX DE
8)DE 141 HILL
Photo. www.navsource.org By Chris White.
CLASS: Edsall TYPE: FMR (geared diesel, Fairbanks-Morse reverse gear drive, 3" guns)
21 December 1942: Keel laid by the Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex
28 February 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Edward Hill, widow of Chief Boatswain Hill
16 August 1943: Commissioned, Lcdr. G. R. Keating in command
07 June 1946: Decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla. after 2 years and 10 months of service
01 October 1972: Struck from the NVR
13 December 1973: Sold for scrapping to the Southern Scrap Materials Co., New Orleans, La.
Displacement: 1,200 tons (std) 1,590 tons (full)
Dimensions: 306' (oa), 300' (wl) x 36' 10" x 12' 3" (max)
Armament: 3 x 3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1 twin 40mm Mk1 AA, 8 x 20mm Mk 4 AA, 3 x 21" Mk15 TT (3x1), 1 Hedgehog Projector Mk10 (144 rounds), 8 Mk6 depth charge projectors, 2 Mk9 depth charge tracks.
Machinery: 4 Fairbanks-Morse Mod. 38d81/8 geared diesel engines, 4 diesel-generators, 6000 shp, 2 screws.
Speed: 21 knots.
Range: 9,100 nm @ 12 knots.
Crew: 8 / 201
After shakedown out of Bermuda, HILL tested new torpedo explosives and engaged in training along the New England coast. Departing Hampton Roads 5 December, HILL escorted a convoy to Casablanca via Ponta del Gada, Azores, and returned to the States 18 January 1944.
During the next year, the destroyer escort made four more transatlantic voyages to the North African coast as Allied forces pushed up the Italian peninsula and began their assault on southern France. On her fourth voyage, DE 141 Hill performed antisubmarine patrol at
