USS McGinty
USS McGinty
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 United States
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| Name: | McGinty |
| Namesake: | Franklin Alexander McGinty |
| Builder: | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
| Laid down: | 3 May 1944 |
| Launched: | 5 August 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 25 September 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 January 1947 |
| Recommissioned: | 28 March 1951 |
| Decommissioned: | 23 September 1968 |
| Struck: | 23 September 1968 |
| Fate: | Scrapped starting 1969 |
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| Class and type: | John C. Butler-class destroyer escort |
| Displacement: | 1,350 long tons (1,370 t) |
| Length: | 306 ft (93 m) |
| Beam: | 36 ft 8 in (11.18 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 5 in (2.87 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 boilers, 2 geared turbine engines, 12,000 shp (8,900 kW); 2 propellers |
| Speed: | 24 kn (44 km/h) |
| Range: | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 14 officers, 201 enlisted |
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USS McGinty (DE-365) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort. The ship was named for Sonarman Third Class Franklin Alexander McGinty, who was killed aboard the gunboat USS Plymouth on 5 August 1943. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism without regard for his own safety.
McGinty's keel was laid down by the Consolidated Steel Corporation of Orange, Texas on 3 May 1944. She was launched on 5 August 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Perrillah Atkinson Malone and commissioned at Orange on 25 September 1944, with Lieutenant Commander William H. Harrison in command.
After a shakedown cruise off Bermuda and training along the US east coast, McGinty departed Norfolk, Virginia on 4 December 1944 for escort duty in the western Pacific. As flagship for Escort Division 86, she touched at San Diego, California, and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii before reaching Eniwetok on 16 January 1945. Later that day, she continued on to Guam as convoy escort duty. During the next 3 months, she escorted ships from Eniwetok to Guam and Ulithi. She completed three round trips between Eniwetok and Guam and two between Eniwetok and Ulithi, escorting tankers, transports, escort carriers, and merchant ships.
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