PIN KLAO (DE 413) HTMS
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 8:16 pm
Built as a destroyer escort under yard No 103 by Western Pipe & Steel Company, San Pedro, California for the USA Navy.
08 May 1943 laid down.
12 September 1943 launched as the USS HEMMINGER (DE-746) one of the Cannon class.
Displacement 1,240 ton standard, 1,620 ton full load. Dim. 93 x 11.23 x 3.56m. (draught), length bpp. 91.4m.
Powered by four GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6,000 shp, twin screws, speed 21 knots..
Range by a speed of 12 knots, 10,800 mile.
Armament: 3 – single MK 22 3 inch/50 caliber guns, 3 – twin 40mm MK. 1 AA guns, 3 – 21 inch torpedo tubes. 1 – Hedgehog MK. 10 anti-submarine mortar (144 rounds). 8 – MK.6 depth charge projectors, 2 – Mk. 9 depth charge tracks.
Crew 216.
30 May 1944 commissioned.
Cyril Franklin Hemminger enlisted in the Navy 26 May 1920. Working his way up through the ranks, he was appointed Boatswain 3 April 1942 and reported to cruiser ASTORIA for duty in the Pacific 8 days later. Hemminger was commissioned Ensign 15 June 1942 and in the early stages of the Guadalcanal Campaign, was killed during the Battle of Savo Island.
HEMMINGER (DE-746) was launched 12 September 1943 by Western Pipe & Steel Co., San Francisco; sponsored by Mrs. Sue Frances Hemminger, widow; and commissioned 30 May 1944, Lt. Comdr. J. R. Bodler, USNR, in command.
Shakedown completed, HEMMINGER reached Pearl Harbor in August 1944 to train submarines for war patrols. She also patrolled between Pearl and Eniwetok and worked in hunter-killer antisubmarine operations. On 28 February 1945 while on a HUK mission with CORREGIDOR and CortDiv 53, the destroyer escort was diverted to participate in the fruitless search for Lieutenant General M. F. Harmon, Commander Army Air Forces Pacific, whose plane had disappeared. After patrol duty in the Marshall Islands, HEMMINGER sailed 30 April to escort a resupply convoy to Okinawa, where battle still raged. From 16 May to 20 June, she acted as screen for a carrier group engaged in neutralization of Sakishima Gunto and supported ground forces on Okinawa as well as the air attack on Kyushu.
HEMMINGER joined CortDiv 53 and KASSAN BAY for further hunter-killer patrol around Guam and Eniwetok until sailing for the Philippines 27 September. Detached from the Pacific Fleet, HEMMINGER reached Norfolk 2 December via Saipan, Pearl Harbor, San Diego, and the Panama Canal. Training out of Green Cove Springs, Fla., occupied HEMMINGER until she decommissioned there 17 June 1946 and went into reserve.
After a period of duty with the reserve training program, HEMMINGER recommissioned at Norfolk 1 December 1950. In the following years her career assumed a pattern of local operations along the coast punctuated by reserve training cruises to Canada and the Caribbean. One reserve cruise in June 1952 took HEMINGER to Lisbon, while others saw her at Rouen, France; Barranquilla, Colombia ; Cadiz, and New Orleans.
HEMMINGER also participated in several fleet exercises and worked with the Turkish submarine GUR in August 1954. Departing Little Creek, Va., 23 November 1957 she reported to New York Naval Shipyard for inactivation. HEMMINGER decommissioned there 21 February 1958 and joined the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. She was loaned to Thailand 22 July 1959 under the Military Assistance Program, and serves the Royal Thai Navy as HTMS PIN KLAO (DE 1).
2015 Still in service by the Thai Navy but now as a training frigate with pennant No DE 413.
Her armament is now given as 3 – 3 inch SP, 3 dual 40mm guns and 2 triple 12.75 mm torpedo tubes.
Thailand 2014 5b sg?, scott?
http://www.history.navy.mil/research/hi ... inger.html
08 May 1943 laid down.
12 September 1943 launched as the USS HEMMINGER (DE-746) one of the Cannon class.
Displacement 1,240 ton standard, 1,620 ton full load. Dim. 93 x 11.23 x 3.56m. (draught), length bpp. 91.4m.
Powered by four GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6,000 shp, twin screws, speed 21 knots..
Range by a speed of 12 knots, 10,800 mile.
Armament: 3 – single MK 22 3 inch/50 caliber guns, 3 – twin 40mm MK. 1 AA guns, 3 – 21 inch torpedo tubes. 1 – Hedgehog MK. 10 anti-submarine mortar (144 rounds). 8 – MK.6 depth charge projectors, 2 – Mk. 9 depth charge tracks.
Crew 216.
30 May 1944 commissioned.
Cyril Franklin Hemminger enlisted in the Navy 26 May 1920. Working his way up through the ranks, he was appointed Boatswain 3 April 1942 and reported to cruiser ASTORIA for duty in the Pacific 8 days later. Hemminger was commissioned Ensign 15 June 1942 and in the early stages of the Guadalcanal Campaign, was killed during the Battle of Savo Island.
HEMMINGER (DE-746) was launched 12 September 1943 by Western Pipe & Steel Co., San Francisco; sponsored by Mrs. Sue Frances Hemminger, widow; and commissioned 30 May 1944, Lt. Comdr. J. R. Bodler, USNR, in command.
Shakedown completed, HEMMINGER reached Pearl Harbor in August 1944 to train submarines for war patrols. She also patrolled between Pearl and Eniwetok and worked in hunter-killer antisubmarine operations. On 28 February 1945 while on a HUK mission with CORREGIDOR and CortDiv 53, the destroyer escort was diverted to participate in the fruitless search for Lieutenant General M. F. Harmon, Commander Army Air Forces Pacific, whose plane had disappeared. After patrol duty in the Marshall Islands, HEMMINGER sailed 30 April to escort a resupply convoy to Okinawa, where battle still raged. From 16 May to 20 June, she acted as screen for a carrier group engaged in neutralization of Sakishima Gunto and supported ground forces on Okinawa as well as the air attack on Kyushu.
HEMMINGER joined CortDiv 53 and KASSAN BAY for further hunter-killer patrol around Guam and Eniwetok until sailing for the Philippines 27 September. Detached from the Pacific Fleet, HEMMINGER reached Norfolk 2 December via Saipan, Pearl Harbor, San Diego, and the Panama Canal. Training out of Green Cove Springs, Fla., occupied HEMMINGER until she decommissioned there 17 June 1946 and went into reserve.
After a period of duty with the reserve training program, HEMMINGER recommissioned at Norfolk 1 December 1950. In the following years her career assumed a pattern of local operations along the coast punctuated by reserve training cruises to Canada and the Caribbean. One reserve cruise in June 1952 took HEMINGER to Lisbon, while others saw her at Rouen, France; Barranquilla, Colombia ; Cadiz, and New Orleans.
HEMMINGER also participated in several fleet exercises and worked with the Turkish submarine GUR in August 1954. Departing Little Creek, Va., 23 November 1957 she reported to New York Naval Shipyard for inactivation. HEMMINGER decommissioned there 21 February 1958 and joined the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. She was loaned to Thailand 22 July 1959 under the Military Assistance Program, and serves the Royal Thai Navy as HTMS PIN KLAO (DE 1).
2015 Still in service by the Thai Navy but now as a training frigate with pennant No DE 413.
Her armament is now given as 3 – 3 inch SP, 3 dual 40mm guns and 2 triple 12.75 mm torpedo tubes.
Thailand 2014 5b sg?, scott?
http://www.history.navy.mil/research/hi ... inger.html