USS Amick (DE-168)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Amick (DE-168) |
| Namesake: | Eugene Earle Amick |
| Builder: | Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newark, New Jersey |
| Yard number: | 284 |
| Laid down: | 7 January 1943 |
| Launched: | 27 May 1943 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Mary R. Amick |
| Commissioned: | 26 July 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 16 May 1947 |
| Reclassified: | FF-168, 6 January 1975 |
| Struck: | 15 June 1975 |
| Fate: | transferred to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), 14 June 1955 |
| Acquired: | returned from JMSDF, 1975 |
| Fate: | transferred to the Philippine Navy, September 1976 |
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 Japan
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| Name: | JDS Asahi (DE-262) |
| Acquired: | 14 June 1955 |
| Fate: | Returned to the United States, 1975 |
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 Philippines
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| Name: | RPS Datu Sikatuna (PS-77) |
| Acquired: | 13 September 1976 |
| Commissioned: | 27 February 1980 |
| Decommissioned: | 1989 |
| Renamed: | BRP Datu Sikatuna (PF-5) |
| Fate: | scrapped, 1989 |
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| Class and type: | Cannon-class destroyer escort |
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| Beam: | 36 ft 10 in (11.23 m) |
| Draft: | 11 ft 8 in (3.56 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6,000 shp (4,474 kW), 2 screws |
| Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Range: | 10,800 nmi (20,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement: | 15 officers and 201 enlisted |
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USS Amick (DE-168) was a Cannon-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and then the Pacific Ocean and provided escort service against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys.
She was laid down on 30 November 1942 by the Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Newark, New Jersey; launched on 27 May 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Mary R. Amick, widow of Ens. Amick, who died at Guadalcanal and for whom the ship was named; and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 26 July 1943, Lt. Comdr. Francis C. B. McCune in command.
Amick left the east coast early in September for shakedown training out of Bermuda. During this cruise, the ship was also engaged in operations testing experimental defensive devices intended to protect American ships against acoustic torpedoes.
In early November, Amick became a member of Task Force 62 and began duty as an escort for transatlantic convoys. The ship also acted as flagship for Escort Division (CortDiv) 15. From November 1943 through May 1945, she completed nine round-trip voyages across the Atlantic. These terminated in several different ports: Casablanca, Morocco; Gibraltar; Bizerte, Tunisia; Palermo, Sicily; and Oran, Algeria. Only one of her convoys was ever harassed by enemy forces. On 1 August 1944, German aircraft attacked the convoy while it was sailing in the Mediterranean off Cape Bengut, Algeria, but failed to damage any ships.
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