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USS LIDDLE

(APD-60)

Galloping Ghost of the East Coast

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APD-60 Deployments - Major Events

Add a APD-60 Shellback Initiation Add a APD-60 Deployment - Major Event
Month Year to Month Year Deployment / Event
JUN 1943 Keel Date: 8 JUN 1943
at Charleston Navy Yard N. Charleston SC
AUG 1943 Launch Date: 9 AUG 1943
DEC 1943 Commissioned: 6 DEC 1943
JUN 1946 Decommissioned: 18 JUN 1946
JAN 1961 - JAN 1963 Cuban Missle Blockade
JAN 1961 - AUG 1961 Caribbean
OCT 1962 - NOV 1962 Cuban Missle Blockade
JAN 1966 - JAN 1966 Guantanamo Bay

APD-60 General Specifications

Class: Buckley-class destroyer escort

Named for: William P. Liddle

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:Sold for scrap 25 June 1967