APD-60 Liddle

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: Buckley/Charles Lawrence, [APD].

Builder: Charleston Naval Shipyard, South Carolina, U.S.A.

Launch date: 09 August 1943.

Commission date: 06 December 1943.

Decommission date: 18 March 1967.

Displacement ( tons ): 1.422, 1.768 at full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 93 x 11 x 3,43

Main machinery: 2 x General Electric turbines, 2 x Combustion Engineering boilers ( 12.000 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 23.

Range ( miles ): 3.700 at 15 knots, 6.000 at 12 knots.

Complement: 213 ( 15 officers ) + 162.

Guns: 1 x 127mm/38, 3 x 76mm/50, 4 x 40mm.

Torpedoes: 1 x Mk15 triple 533mm launcher.

A/S Mortars: 1 x Hedgehog, 8 x depth charge throwers.

Military lift: 4 x LCVP.

Radar: SC / SF / SL / SU.

Sonar: QGA.

Callsign: NFIU ()

Comment: Former destroyer escort from the Buckley class converted to Charles Lawrence APD37 High Speed Transport specs. On the 7th of December of 1944 lost 38 men in a kamikaze attack while liberating Ormoc.

Awards (as of 18/03/1967):