USS Fieberling
 DE 640 (Buckley Class) 

Builder:        Bethlehem, San Francisco
Laid Down:      1943
Launched:       April 2, 1944
Commissioned:   April 11, 1944
Decommissioned: 
Fate:           Stricken March 1, 1972

We are seeking information on the USS Fieberling 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 Buckley Class as Constructed 

Displacement:  1,432 tons
Length:        306 feet
Beam:          37 feet
Draught:       11 feet 3 inches
Machinery:     two Foster-Wheeler, Babcock & Wilcox
               or Combustion Engineering boilers; 
               2-shaft G.E.C. turbines
Performance:   12,000 shp for 23 knots
Bunkerage:     340 tons
Range:         5,000 nautical miles at 15 knots
Guns:          three 3 inch; four 1.1 inch; eight 20 mm
Torpedoes:     three 21 inch

Photo courtesy of the [late] Bill Ackroyd


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