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Subj: USS POOLE (DE-151)
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Sent: 041207/1801z @:N7FSP.#SEA.#WWA.WA.USA.NOAM West Seattle, WA. on 145.010
Just four years of service for destroyer escort Poole
By FRED MILES WATSON - Managing Editor – Northwest Navigator
The destroyer escort USS Poole (DE-151) was of the Edsall class
and was built at Consolidated Steel Co., of Orange, Texas. She was
commissioned on September 29 1943. U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. R D. Dean was
her first commanding officer.
Displacing 1,590-tons fully loaded, Poole was outfitted with
three, 3-inch .50-caliber gunmounts, two, 40mm and 10, 20mm
antiaircraft gunmounts. In addition, she carried three-21-inch torpedo
tubes, one Hedgehog type depth charge, eight depth charge projectors
and two depth charge racks. At 306 feet in length, she could attain a
top speed of 21 knots carrying a draft of 12-feet, three inches.
Propulsion consisted of four Fairbanks Morse Model 38d81/8 Geared
Diesel Engines developing 6,000 shaft horsepower through two
propellers. The ship's roster showed 186 Sailors assigned in Poole.
Following shakedown operations off Bermuda, Poole took on coast-
wise escort duties, and toward the end of the year extended her escort
services to transatlantic runs.
On June 4, 1945, Escort Division 22, led by Poole, departed New
York for the Pacific. Arriving at Pearl Harbor July 14, she conducted
patrols there for the remainder of the war. On Sept. 4, she departed
Pearl Harbor and proceeded to Saipan, thence to Honshu, where she
joined the occupation forces.
After a month of occupation patrol duty off Wakayama, Poole was
underway Oct. 29, for San Diego. She then steamed to the East Coast,
reaching Charleston, S.C., on Dec. 10. She was shifted to Green Cove
Springs, Fla., where she decommissioned in January of 1947 and entered
the Atlantic Reserve Fleet where she remained until being stricken from
the Naval Register on Jan. 2, 1971. She was broken up for scrap in Jan.
30, 1974.
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