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Uss Doneff (De-49) | style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;" | Career | style="background:navy;align:right;" | USN Jack | | Laid down: | unknown | | Launched: | 24 July 1942 | | Commissioned: | 10 June 1943 | | Decommissioned: | 22 December 1945 | | Fate: | scrap | | colspan=2 style="color: white; background: navy;" | General Characteristics | | Displacement: | 1,140 tons | | Length: | 289'5" | | Beam: | 35'1" | | Draft: | 11'10" | | Speed: | 21 knots | | Complement: | 15 officers, 183 enlisted | | Armament: | 3 x 3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1 x 1.1"/75 Mk2 quad AA (4x1), 9 x 20mm Mk 4 AA, 1 Hedgehog Projector Mk10 (144 rounds), 8 Mk6 depth charge projectors, 2 Mk9 depth charge tracks | The USS Doneff DE-49 was an Evarts (GMT) class destroyer escort which served in the Pacific Theater of Operations. The only encounter with the Imperial Japanese Navy was the sighting of one or two zero fighters during the operational time spent in the Aleutian Islands. The Chief Boatswain was Arthur E Brockschmidt, who passed away on January 22nd, 2003 in Springfield, Illinois. DE 49, originally intended for transfer to Great Britain, was launched 24 July 1942 by Philadelphia Navy Yard; retained by the U.S. Navy; named Doneff 4 March 1943, and commissioned 10 June 1943, Lieutenant Commander L. C. Mabley, USNR, in command. Doneff arrived at San Diego as escort for a convoy 9 September 1943. On 27 September she got underway for Alaskan waters and escort duty. From April 1944 she cruised between Attu and the Kurile Islands to report enemy contacts, forced landings of aircraft, and weather, and to guide planes and serve as rescue vessels in case of forced landings. She returned to Attu 19 May for escort duty between Alaskan ports. Except for a period as guard ship again from 1 to 21 August 1944, she continued to escort convoys until 7 January 1945 when she sailed for San Francisco and overhaul. Arriving at Pearl Harbor 9 March 1945 for exercises, Doneff got underway on the 20th to escort a convoy to Eniwetok, arriving 28 March. She served at Guam on patrol and local escort duty, then made antisubmarine patrols off Saipan until 6 August, when she sailed for Okinawa as a convoy escort, returning to Saipan 19 August. From 25 August to 23 September she joined USS Mayrant (DD 402) to receive the surrender of the Japanese garrison on Marcus Island and support occupation of the island by American troops. After brief overhaul at Guam, Doneff put to sea 11 October, arriving at San Pedro 26 October. Doneff was decommissioned 22 December 1945 at San Diego, and sold for scrapping 9 January 1947. (Source: http://www.multied.com/navy/DE/Doneff.html)
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