USS Shields (DD-596)
 Commissioning of the USS Shields (DD-596) on February 8, 1945 |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Type | destroyer |
| Shipyard | |
| Keel laying | August 10, 1943 |
| Launch | September 25, 1944 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| period of service |
February 8, 1945 - July 1, 1972 |
| Whereabouts | Wrecked in 1972 to Brazil in 1990 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
2,100 ts |
| length |
114.7 meters |
| width |
12.2 meters |
| Draft |
5.4 meters |
| crew |
329 |
| drive |
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| speed |
35 kn |
| Range |
6,500 nautical miles (11,700 km) at 15 knots |
| Armament |
When commissioning:
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The USS Shields (DD-596) was a for Fletcher Class belonging destroyer of the US Navy . The destroyer was used in World War II and the Korean War. In 1972 the ship was sold to Brazil . Until July 1990 the destroyer served as CT Maranhão (D 33) in the Brazilian Navy .
Namesake
Thomas Shields was a purser in the US Navy. During the British-American War he undertook after the Battle of New Orleans with a group on February 18, 1815 an advance against the retreating British troops, with numerous prisoners taken and several ships destroyed.
technology
Hull and drive
The hull of the USS Shields 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
Main armament of the destroyer were with putting the five 5 "L / 38-Mk.30 single towers to air defense, ten were located. 40 mm - anti-aircraft guns and ten 20-mm guns on board.
The USS Shields 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 Shields was laid down together with her sister ship the USS Wiley on August 10, 1943 in the Puget Sound Navy Yard and was launched with her on September 25, 1944. Godmother was First Lieutenant Margaret Shields Farr, WAC , great-granddaughter of the namesake. On February 8, 1945, the destroyer entered service under the command of Commander George B. Madden.
1945
The test drive of the USS Shields took place from March 7th to April 18th, interrupted by nine days of escort service for the battleship USS Iowa . She left Puget Sound on May 6, heading for Pearl Harbor . From there she escorted the PD-413-T convoy to Eniwetok . Until the end of the war on August 15, 1945, she was used for escort and patrol services in the waters around Eniwetok, Ulithi , Leyte , Okinawa and Borneo . On June 26, 1945 they shelled Japanese positions near Miri on Borneo in support of Australian troops .
On August 15, 1945, the USS Shields was in Buckner Bay , Okinawa, when the news of the surrender of Japan reached them. After a voyage that took her to Leyte, Subic Bay and back to Okinawa, she was placed under Task Group (TG) 78.1 and escorted ships from Transport Squadron (TransRon) 17 carrying occupation forces to Incheon , Korea . After the city was occupied without resistance, it set course for the north Chinese coast together with units from Task Unit (TU) 71.5.1 . She spent the rest of the year in the Gulf of Bohai . She called at the ports of Chefoo , Weihaiwei , Taku , Dairen and Port Arthur , escorted the aircraft carriers USS Antietam and USS Boxer and carried out patrols with the Yangtze River patrol stationed in Shanghai .
1946-1950
After stops in Eniwetok and Pearl Harbor, the USS Shields reached San Pedro on February 19, 1946 and stayed there until it was decommissioned on June 14, 1946. She was assigned to the reserve fleet in San Diego and mothballed. After the outbreak of hostilities in Korea, the destroyer was put back into service on July 15, 1950.
1951-1953
In September 1951, the USS Shields reached the coast of Korea. During her missions, which lasted from September 1951 to February 1952 and from November 1952 to May 1953, she patrolled the west coast and supported the 1st Corps of the South Korean Army as well as the 1st US Marine Division and the 8th US Army with its guns . When attacking Kojo , she used her artillery again. On June 1, 1953, the destroyer ran back to San Diego.
1954-1972
The USS Shields returned to Korea after six months. She reached the coast on February 11, 1954 and belonged to TF 77 until she set course for the Philippines on February 21, 1954 . In March and April they operated out of Subic Bay and patrolled with TG 70.2 along the coasts of Indochina before after a stay in Hong Kong in Yokosuka broke in. After a one-week combat exercise with the TF 77 , it reached San Diego on July 18, 1954.
Between July 1954 and December 1963, the USS Shields was deployed seven times to the Western Pacific. From November 30, 1963, she served as a training ship for the marine reserves and was subordinated to the Reserve Destroyer Squadron (ResDesRon) 27 . During an inspection in March 1972 it was found that the costs of a necessary modernization would be too high and that without this the ship would only be of marginal value for the Navy. The USS Shields was decommissioned on July 1, 1972 and sold to Brazil.
CT Maranhão (D 33)
On July 6, 1972, the destroyer was commissioned as Contratorpedeiro (CT) Maranhão (D 33) . The Maranhão served in the Brazilian Navy until June 6, 1990. During this time she spent 1016 days at sea and covered 270,717.87 nautical miles. After it was decommissioned, the Maranhão was sold for demolition.
Awards
The USS Shields received three Battle Stars and a Presidential Unit Citation from the President of the Republic of Korea during the Korean War .
Individual evidence
- ↑ CT Maranhão - D 33 ( Memento from November 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 18, 2013 (Portuguese).
literature
- Stefan Terzibaschitsch : Destroyer of the US Navy. Bechtermünz Verlag, Augsburg 1997, ISBN 3-86047-587-8 .
- Alan Raven: Fletcher Class Destroyers. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis 1986, ISBN 0-87021-193-5 .
Web links
- History of USS Shields (DD-596) in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (English)
- navsource.org: USS Shields (English)
- hazegray.org: USS Shields (English)