The capacities of U. S. "DE" boats
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The capacities of U. S. "DE" boats
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Title: Why "DE" boats are death to subs
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CLEAN-LINED and businesslike, Uncle
Sam's new destroyer escorts (P.S.M.,
July '43, p. 110) are pounding the high seas
in good weather and bad, helping to crush
the submarine menace and maintain the vi-
tal flow of troops and munitions to the
theaters of war.
A comparatively new type of vessel for
the U. S. Navy, the 1,300-ton DE is a high-
ly developed cross between the British cor-
vette (which U.S. Navy men rate as too
slow and too lightly armed for general use)
and the standard destroyer (which is com-
plex, costly, and slow in building). The DE
combines a fair amount of the destroyer’s
speed and hitting power with the corvette’s
simplicity, low cost, and speed of produc-
tion; it is an ideal warship for protecting
merchant-ship convoys. Each DE has dual-
purpose guns and depth charges to fight sub-
marines, machine guns and antiaircraft
guns to beat off low-flying planes, and tor-
pedo tubes for use against surface raiders.
Our drawing by Stewart Rouse illustrates
construction and equipment. Official U.S.
Navy photographs show (upper left) one of
the scores of new DE's sliding off the ways
of a Texas shipyard and (lower right) dual-
purpose and AA guns as seen from the bow
of another of the novel craft.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1943-09
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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94-95
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google Digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Matteo Ridolfi
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 143, n. 3, 1943
