Builder: Federal Shipbuilding - Newark, New Jersey
Laid Down: July 29, 1943
Launched: October 17, 1943
Commissioned: November 17, 1943
Decommissioned:
Fate: To France - August 12, 1950
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The Cannon Class as Constructed
Displacement: 1,250 tons (1,600 full load)
Length: 306 feet
Beam: 36 feet 7 inches
Draught: 10 feet 5 inches
Machinery: 2-shaft General Motors Diesels
Performance: 6,000 bhp for 21 knots
Bunkerage: 279 tons
Range: 11,500 nautical miles at 11 knots
Guns: three 3 inch, two 40 mm, eight 20 mm
Torpedoes: three 21 inch
Complement: 186
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