U.S.S. Hissem
DER-400
1957
(NNCAD 2367a)
- Class: Edsall - 34 converted destroyer escort radar pickets of 1951-58
- Displacement: 1,590 tons standard / 1,850 tons full load
- Dimensions: 306' (oa) x 36'10" x 11'
- Machinery: 4 Fairbanks-Morse Diesels; 2 shafts; 6,000 BHP
- Speed: 21 knots
- Guns: 2-3"/50 (2x1); 4-20mm (2x2)
- ASW weapons: 1 trainable Hedgehog; 2 torpedo rack side launchers; 1 DC rack
- Complement: 150
- Builder: Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Texas
- Keel Laid: 6 Oct 1943
- Launched: 26 Oct 1943
- Commissioned: 13 Jan 1944 / 31 Aug 1956
- Decommissioned: 15 Jun 1946 / 15 May 1970
- Notes: One of a large class of destroyer escorts converted during the Cold War to radar picket ships to extend the DEW (Distant Early Warning) line of radar stations guarding against potential Soviet attack. The superstructure was rebuilt with aluminum and a tripod mast added to support ECM and TACAN, with SPS-8 height finder radar on the after deckhouse, along with other changes. The radar picket mission ended in 1965, but several of this class went on to serve in Vietnam.
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