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USS Barr (DE 576)


USS Barr after conversion to an APD from a Buckley class DE

NameUSS Barr (DE 576)
Type:Destroyer escort (Buckley)
Tonnage1.300 tons
Completed1943 - Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyards Inc, Hingham MA 
OwnerUnited States Navy 
Homeport 
Date of attack29 May, 1944Nationality:      American
 
FateDamaged by U-549 (Detlev Krankenhagen)
Position31.14N, 23.00W -
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Complement? men (16 dead and ? survivors).
Convoy 
Route 
Cargo 
History Took part (as APD-39) in following landings: Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Japan occupation; 1946 decommissioned; 1963 sunk as target off Puerto Rico
The USS Barr recieved three battle stars for her WWII service. 
Notes on loss

On 29 May 1944, U-549 slipped undetected through the screen of the hunter-killer group TG 21.11, formed around the USS Block Island (CVE 21) and fired at 20.13 hours three T-3 torpedoes on the carrier, one or two of them struck and she sank northeast of Canary Islands.
At 20.40 hours the escort destroyer USS Barr was damaged by a Gnat in the stern and a second Gnat missed the escort destroyer USS Eugene E. Elmore (DE 686). But U-549 was then attacked and sunk by the latter and the escort destroyer USS Ahrens (DE 575).
The USS Barr, which was on her first war voyage, lost 16 dead and 14 injured. On the following morning the injured an some personnel were transferred to USS Eugene E. Elmore and Barr was towed by that vessel, USS Wolhoite (DE 397) and the Dutch tug Antic into Casablanca on 5 June. After preliminary repairs, the Barr was towed by USS Cherokee (ATF-66) to Boston, arriving there on 25 July.

The ship was converted to an auxiliary high speed transport, reclassified APD-39 and reentered service in November 1944.

 


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