taken from USS Ponchatoula (AO 148) in Tonkin Gulf during a 1966 - 1967 cruise USS McMorris (DE 1036) Specifications: Class: Claud Jones Type: SCB No. 131 / 1956-57 Number in Class: 4 Displacement: 1,314 tons (light), 1,916 tons (full) Length: 301' (wl), 312' (oa) Beam: 38' (extreme) Draft: 18' (draft limit) Propulsion: 4 Fairbanks-Morse 38ND8 Diesels, 8,852 shp, 1 shaft Speed: 22 kts Range: 7,000 nm @ 12 knots Complement: 12 / 159 Guns: 2 - 3"/50 Mk 33 (2x1) ASW Weapons: 2 - Mk 11 Hedgehog, 6 - 12.75" (324mm) Mk 32 torpedo tubes (2x3) / Mk 46 torpedos Radars: AN/SPS-10 (surface), AN/SPS-6C (air) Sonars: AN/SQS-4 # Fire Control Systems: Mk70 Gun FCS, Mk105 Underwater Battery FCS McMorris (DE 1036) Building and Operational Data: 5 November 1958: Keel laid at the American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain, Oh. # 26 May 1959: Launched and christened at the Avondale Marine Ways, Inc., Westwego, La.; sponsored by Mrs. Charles H. McMorris, widow of Vice Adm. McMorris # 4 Mar...
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