USS McCoy Reynolds DE 440

USS McCoy Reynolds
DE 440 (John C. Butler Class)

ďż˝ Bob Schank. Courtesy of Captain John James

Authorized: ? Builder: Federal Shipbuilding, Port Newark N.J. Laid Down: November 18, 1943 Launched: February 22, 1944 Commissioned: May 2, 1944 Decommissioned: May 31, 1946 Recommissioned: March 28, 1951 Decommissioned: February 7 1957 Fate: To Portugal February 7, 1957 Renamed Corte Real Stricken: October 21 1968 and broken up for scrap

We are seeking information on the USS McCoy Reynolds 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.

The John C. Butler 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.

Subject: U.S.S. McCoy Reynolds (DE-440)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001
From: Bob Gehring

As Signalman 1/C, I served aboard from May 2, 1944 to May 31, 1946. DE-440 was recommissioned May 2, 1944 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. After shakedown in Bermuda, she escorted the carrier Ranger through the Panama Canal to Pearl. The McCoy Reynolds served with Halsey's Third Fleet at Peleliu, Ulithi, and Okinawa.

Screened for Spruance's Fifth Fleet as TF-38 bombarded Japan She sank two Japanese submarines. Survived the June 5, '45 typhoon that hit the Third Fleet's 125-ship convoy off Okinawa Drew picket line duty at Okinawa. After VE-Day, she made mail and personnel runs between Okinawa and Nagasaki. She was decommissioned May 31, 1946 at San Diego. On March 28, 1951, recommissioned and sent to Korea. From 1957 to 1968, she served in the Portuguese Navy.

Crew from all three cruises of this remarkable ship assemble each year for a reunion hosted by a crew member in a different U.S. City. A complete history is on-line, with links, at http://www.bgehring.addr.com

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