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USS AMESBURY

(APD-46)

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APD-46 Deployments - Major Events

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Month Year to Month Year Deployment / Event
MAR 1943 Keel Date: 8 MAR 1943
at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation Hingham MA
JUN 1943 Launch Date: 5 JUN 1943
AUG 1943 Commissioned: 30 AUG 1943
JUL 1946 Decommissioned: 3 JUL 1946

APD-46 General Specifications

Class: Buckley-class destroyer escort

Complement: 15 Officers and 198 Enlisted

Displacement: 1400 tons

Length: 306 feet

Beam: 37 feet

Draft: 9 feet 6 in

Range: 3 700 Nautical Miles

Final Disposition: Sold for scrap 24 October 1962Sank under tow off Key West