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USS GANTNER

(APD-42)

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APD-42 Deployments - Major Events

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Month Year to Month Year Deployment / Event
DEC 1942 Keel Date: 31 DEC 1942
at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation Quincy MA
APR 1943 Launch Date: 17 APR 1943
JUL 1943 Commissioned: 23 JUL 1943
NOV 1947 - FEB 1948 Alaska
AUG 1949 Decommissioned: 2 AUG 1949

APD-42 General Specifications

Class: Buckley-class destroyer escort

Named for: Samuel Merritt Gantner

Complement: 15 Officers and 198 Enlisted

Displacement: 1400 tons

Length: 306 feet

Beam: 37 feet

Flank Speed: 23 knots

Range: 3 700 Nautical Miles

Final Disposition:Transferred to the Republic of China 22 February 1966