USS Wiley (DD-597)

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USS Wiley
USS Wiley
Overview
Type destroyer
Shipyard

Puget Sound Navy Yard

Keel laying August 10, 1943
Launch September 25, 1944
1. Period of service flag
period of service

February 22, 1945–15. May 1946

Whereabouts Sold for demolition in 1970
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
  • 10 × 40 mm flak
  • 10 × 20 mm flak
  • 10 × 21-inch torpedo tube (2 groups of five)
  • 6 depth charges
  • 2 depth charges

The USS Wiley (DD-597) was a destroyer in the United States Navy . The destroyer was the last Fletcher-class ship in service and was used during World War II . The destroyer was decommissioned in 1946 and was part of the reserve fleet until 1968. In April 1970 the USS Wiley was sold for demolition.

Namesake

William Wiley was a member of the US Navy. In the American-Tripolitan War he was part of the American contingent, which, under the leadership of Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, boarded the USS Philadelphia captured by the Tripolitan fleet in the port of Tripoli in 1803 and set it on fire.

technology

Hull and drive

The hull of the USS Wiley 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 "/ 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 Wiley 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 Wiley was laid down in the Puget Sound Navy Yard on August 10, 1943 and launched on September 25, 1944. Godmother was the wife of Vice Admiral Herbert V. Wiley. On February 22, 1945, the destroyer entered service under the command of Commander B. P. Field, Jr., as the last Fletcher-class ship.

After completion of the test drives, the destroyer ran to Pearl Harbor . After three weeks of training off Oahu, she escorted the escort aircraft carrier USS Cape Gloucester via Leyte to Subic Bay , which the ships reached on July 13th. The USS Wiley left Subic Bay on August 9 and escorted a small tanker convoy to the Ryūkyū Islands .

After the surrender of Japan , the destroyer was used off the Chinese coast. On September 6, 1945, the USS Wiley, together with the cruisers of Cruiser Division 6, covered the landing of American troops at Incheon in Korea . From October 12 to November 18, she was part of Task Force (TF) 77 , which was formed around the aircraft carriers USS Antietam and USS Boxer and operated in the Gulf of Bohai . It was then used to transport passengers and mail between Incheon and Shanghai , Tsingtau and Taku . She returned to Incheon on November 30th. The USS Wiley sailed to San Francisco via Guam , Eniwetok and Pearl Harbor in December 1945 . It arrived there on January 3, 1946. On March 11, her inactivation was ordered and she moved to San Diego the next day , where she was mothballed as part of the reserve fleet from May 15, 1946.

On May 1, 1968, she was struck from the fleet list and sold for demolition on April 2, 1970.

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