USS Daly (DD-519)

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USS Daly in July 1952 on the Cooper River
USS Daly in July 1952 on the Cooper River
Overview
Type destroyer
Shipyard

Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation , Staten Island

Keel laying April 29, 1942
Launch October 24, 1942
1. Period of service flag
period of service

March 10, 1943–2. May 1960

Whereabouts April 1976 sold for demolition
Technical specifications
displacement

2,100  ts

length

114.7 meters

width

12.2 meters

Draft

5.4 meters

crew

329

drive
speed

35 kn

Range

6,500  nautical miles (11,700 km) at 15 knots

Armament

When commissioning:

  • 5 × 5-inch L / 38 Mk.30 single turret
  • 6 × 40 mm flak
  • 10 × 20 mm flak
  • 10 × 21-inch torpedo tube (2 groups of five)
  • 6 depth charges
  • 2 depth charges

The USS Daly (DD-519) was a for Fletcher Class belonging destroyer of the US Navy . She took part in World War II and the Korean War. In 1960 she was decommissioned and was part of the reserve fleet until December 1974 . In 1976 it was sold for demolition.

Namesake

Daniel Joseph "Dan" Daly (1873–1937) was a sergeant major in the US Marine Corps and one of nineteen Medal of Honor holders to have received the award twice.

technology

Hull and drive

The hull of the USS Daly was 114.7 m long and 12.2 m wide. The draft was 5.4 m, the displacement was 2,100  tons . The ship was powered by two General Electric steam turbines, and the steam was generated in four Babcock & Wilcox boilers. The power was 60,000 shaft horsepower, the top speed was 35 knots .

Armament and Electronics

The main armament of the destroyer was five 5 "/ 38 Mk.30 single turrets and two torpedo tube sets, each with five 21" torpedo tubes. For air defense, the USS Daly was equipped with six 40-mm Bofors - and ten 20-mm Oerlikon - anti-aircraft guns. At the beginning of 1945, it was one of the last destroyers in its class to receive enhanced anti-aircraft armament. The 20 mm guns in the area of ​​the bridge were replaced by 40 mm guns, so that the USS Daly had five 40 mm twin guns and seven 20 mm guns on single mounts. To combat submarines, the ship was equipped with two drainage rails for 600 lb. depth charges at the stern and three K-Gun water bomb launchers for 300 lb. depth charges on the starboard and port sides.

The USS Daly was equipped with radar . An SG and an SC radar were mounted on the mast above the bridge, with which aircraft could be located at distances between 15 and 30 nautical miles and ships between 10 and 22 nautical miles. A QC sonar was installed for underwater location .

history

The USS Daly was laid down at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation on Staten Island on April 29, 1942 . On October 24, 1942, she was baptized by A. Ransweiler, the niece of the namesake, and put into service on March 10, 1943 under the command of Commander RG Visser. She was part of the Destroyer Squadron (DesRon) 24 .

1943

Between mid-May and late June 1943, the USS Daly was part of the escort of the aircraft carrier USS Ranger and protected it during various training and patrol trips off Newfoundland . She then ran to New York and escorted the USS Lexington to San Diego , where the ships entered on August 4th. A day later, the destroyer set course for Alaska and reached Adak on August 11th . From August 15 to 21, the USS Daly escorted troop transports for the landing on Kiska and took over escort and patrol services between Kiska and Attu until November 18 .

On November 23, she reached Pearl Harbor and ran from there on December 9 to Milne Bay in New Guinea , which she reached on December 18. She took part in Operation Dexterity , the landing on New Britain . Together with the destroyers USS Beale , USS Hutchins and USS Brownson, she escorted a convoy with troops and supplies from Cape Cretin in New Guinea to Cape Gloucester . On December 26, 1943, at 7:30 a.m., US Marines landed on New Britain. The USS Daly took up position off the coast after landing and was eight nautical miles north of Cape Gloucester at 14:19 when several Japanese planes were located by the radar. P-38 Lightning were brought in for interception . Some Aichi D3A Val managed to break through the hunting protection and attack the American ships. The USS Daly shot down two Japanese planes. She then rescued 168 survivors of the USS Brownson, which was sunk during the air strike . Other survivors were rescued by the USS Lamson .

1944

The USS Daly covered the LST's return trip to Cape Sudest and then escorted a convoy to Saidor , where another landing of Operation Dexterity took place between January 2 and 4, 1944 with Operation Michaelmas . She stayed there until February 4th and returned to Milne Bay on February 22nd, after a stay in Sydney .

The USS Daly was placed under Task Group (TG) 74.2 , which was put together to conquer the Admiralty Islands . The destroyer took part in the bombardment of Los Negros Island on February 29 and the sea ​​eagle port on March 7. The ship entered Milne Bay again on March 12, 1944. On March 17th, the USS Daly bombarded the port facilities of Wewak , used its artillery on April 21st and 22nd during the conquest of Hollandia and on April 29th and 30th fought targets on Sawar and Wakde. She then patrolled between Aitape and Tanamerah. From May 15 to August 5, 1944, the USS Daly was involved in American operations in western New Guinea.

After an overhaul in Sydney, she and the destroyers USS Hutchins , USS Beale , USS Bache , USS Abner Read , USS Bush , USS Ammen , USS Mullany , HMAS Arunta and HMAS Warramunga landed on Morotai , the last major landing operation in New Guinea , on September 15th.

On October 13, 1944, the USS Daly ran out as part of the US 7th Fleet for the Liberation of the Philippines , which began landing on Leyte on October 20 . The Japanese decided to use every available major warship to repel this attack in order to destroy the landed troops. To stop the invasion, the Japanese fleet approached Leyte in three groups on October 24th . The USS Daly was part of the screen, which under the command of Rear Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf standing Task Group (TG) 77.2 in the Surigao Strait protected. TG 77.2 was intended to intercept 1st Combat Group C , consisting of two battleships, a heavy cruiser and four destroyers, under the command of Vice Admiral Shōji Nishimura . The USS Daly stood on the right flank of the Allied ships along with USS Hutchins , USS Bache , HMAS Arunta , USS Beale and USS Killen . In the subsequent naval battle on Surigao Strait , all Japanese ships except for the destroyer Shigure were lost.

The USS Daly set course for the west coast of the United States in November to be overtaken at home.

1945

On February 16, 1945, the USS Daly reached the waters off Iwo Jima . On February 21, she rescued eleven survivors of the escort aircraft carrier USS Bismarck Sea, which was sunk in a kamikaze attack . On March 7, 1945, she left the sea area and ran into San Pedro Bay on Leyte to join the ships scheduled for landing on Okinawa .

On March 27, she left San Pedro Bay and headed for Okinawa Hontō . The night before the Love Day , the D-Day of Operation Iceberg , she took part in preparation for the invasion of the bombardment of targets on the coast. Later in the operation, she made patrols along the Okinawa coast. On April 28, she was able to repel a kamikaze attack. The downed aircraft struck the surface of the water almost 25 m from the destroyer. Three men were killed and 16 wounded by the bomb that was being carried. The USS Daly went to the Kerama Islands for repairs and was able to be used again after a short time. On May 25, the USS Bates fell victim to a kamikazes and the USS Daly rescued a seriously wounded man from the sinking ship. At the beginning of June it was part of the destroyer parachute that protected the aircraft carriers of the TF 38 during the air raid on Japan on June 10th.

After taking over ammunition, supplies and food in the Gulf of Leyte , the USS Daly returned to the waters off Okinawa on July 16, 1945. It belonged to the TF 95 which was supposed to fight the opposing shipping traffic in the East China Sea . Before the end of the war, the destroyer carried out operations in the mouth of the Yangtze River and in the sea area off Shanghai . The destroyer reached Nagasaki on September 14 and remained in Japanese waters until November 17. The ship entered San Diego on December 6th and continued to Charleston , South Carolina , where it arrived on December 23rd.

1946-1960

On April 18, 1946, the USS Daly was decommissioned and assigned to the reserve fleet. Their renewed commissioning took place on July 6, 1951. The ship's new home port was the Newport naval base . It orbited the earth between March 18, 1953 and January 15, 1954. She took the TF 77 to Korea , where she patrolled Jeju-do . The way home took her through the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean . The next major voyage took them between July 28 and November 28, 1955 to Northern Europe and the Mediterranean. She was then used with the Hunter-Killer Group 3 until April 10 in the Caribbean . On January 4, 1957, she left Newport again and went to Africa , the Middle East and South Asia with stays in Freetown , Simon's Town , Cape Town , Mombasa , Karachi , Aden , Eritrea and the Canary Islands . The USS Daly returned to its base on June 7, 1957. Between September 3 and November 27, 1957, she drove again to Northern Europe and the Mediterranean, where she took part in NATO maneuvers as part of the 6th US Fleet . Her last major voyage took her from March 17 to October 11, 1959, to the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf .

Whereabouts

On May 2, 1960, the USS Daly was decommissioned in Norfolk and assigned to the reserve fleet. The destroyer was removed from the list of warships on December 1 and sold for demolition on April 22, 1976.

Awards

The USS Daly was awarded eight Battle Stars for its service in World War II and another Battle Star during the Korean War.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodore Roscoe: Destroyer Operations in World War II. Pp. 269–270.
  2. ^ Theodore Roscoe: Destroyer Operations in World War II. Pp. 419-423.

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