USS Alvin C. Crockrel
DE 366
(John C. Butler Class)

USS Alvin C. Crockrel DE 366 Refueling from the USS Badoeng Strait
CVE 116, Prox Nov.1954

Photos Above Submitted By:
Marty Mustin

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We are seeking information on the USS Alvin C. Crockrel  and her crews. Files and photos may be emailed to us and we will incorporate them into this page. When enough information has been assembled we will then build the ship her own section.

John C. Butler ( DE ) Class as constructed

Displacement:  1,430 tons (1,811 tons full load)
Length:        306 feet
Beam:          37 feet
Draught:       11 feet 2 inches
Machinery:     two Combustion Engineering or
               Babcock & Wilcox boilers;
               2-shaft Westinghouse turbines with electric drive
Performance:   12,000 for 23 knots
Bunkerage:     347 tons
Range:         6,000 nautical miles at 12 knots
Guns:          two single 5 inch 38 caliber
               four 40mm in two twin mounts
               ten 20mm machine guns
Torpedoes:     one triple 21 inch mount
Depth Charges: two stern racks
               eight k-guns
Complement:    156

In other words - small ship armed to the teeth.