USS Stickell
DD 888


USS Stickell DD 888
Photo courtesy Joe Dupuis 

Builder:        Consolidated Shipbuilding, Orange, Texas
Laid Down:      January 5, 1945
Launched:       June 16, 1945
Commissioned:   October 31, 1945
Decommissioned: 
Fate:           Converted to DDR in 1953
                FRAM 1 early 1960's
                Sold to Greece July 1, 1972 as Kanaris

We are seeking information on the USS Stickell 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 Gearing Class as Constructed 

          Displacement:  2,616 tons (3,460 tons full load)
          Length:        390 feet 6 inches
          Beam:          40 feet 10 inches
          Draught:       14 feet 4 inches (mean)
          Machinery:     four Babcock & Wilcox boilers;
                         2-shaft G.E.C. geared turbines
          Performance:   60,000 shp for 36.8 knots
          Bunkerage:     740 tons
          Range:         4,500 nautical miles at 20 knots
          Guns:          six 5 inch DP; twelve 40 mm;
                         eleven 20 mm
          Torpedoes:     ten 21 inch in two mounts




Subject: Re: USS Stickell
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 07:02:03 EST
From: [email protected]
"[email protected]"
To: Destroyers Online

ROBERT,
 THANKS FOR THE INFO, AND FOR THE GREAT SITES. I'M SURE IT'S A LOT OF WORK, 
AND TIME. I'D LIKE TO POST MY E-MAIL ADDRESS ON THE STICKELL SITE, AND HOPEFULLY
HEAR FROM SOME ' OLD MATES'. I WAS ABOARD 888 FROM '65 TO '67 AS AN ATN-3 WORKING 
ON THE "DASH" HELICOPTERS. THANKS AGAIN, WENDELL



USS Stickell DD 888 arriving at Midway - 1953
Above three photos taken by Robert Cloud
Photo courtesy John Cloud

E-mail from John Saffle

I just found your website for the Stickel. I served on her from 1953-1955 as a Gunners Mate 3rd class. I reported to her while she was undergoing a retrofit from DDD to DDR in Long Beach, CA. While on board the ship made a world cruise in 1954. The cruise commenced while on a 6 or 7 month cruise with Task Force 77. Prior to our departure from San Diego we joined up with the Destroyers Solee, Barton and Strong. All 4 ships departed for the Far East. Although home ported in Yokosuka, we spent more time underway. Several stops in Sasebo and a quick trip to Kobe. Also, several trips to Hong Kong while doing the Formosa Patrol less than a mile off the China coast. Some time we would be so close to Chinese radar installations we could wave to the men stationed at the site. Anyway, the 4 ships left Hong Kong and sailed westward to Singapore, Colombo, Ceylon, Mombassa, Kenya, Port Ste. Elizabeth South Africa, Durban, South Africa around the Horn to Capetown. Then leaving Africa, headed westward across the South Atlantic to Rio De Jinero, north to Port of Spain, Trinidad. From there on to Norfolk, VA.

I would like to say hello to Don Castleman with whom I served all the time abord the Stickel.

I can be reached via e-mail address;
John Saffle

 
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