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USS Breeman (DE 104)

Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - G - D - W

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
American Campaign Medal - European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal w/ 1 star - WWII Victory Medal

Specifications:
Class: Cannon
Type: DET (diesel-electric tandem motor drive, long hull, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1240 tons (light), 1620 tons (full)
Length: 300' (wl), 306' (oa)
Beam: 36' 10" (extreme)
Draft: 10' 6" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 4 GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 21 kts
Range: 10,800 nm @ 12 knots
Armament: 3 x 3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1 twin 40mm Mk1 AA, 8 x 20mm Mk 4 AA, 3 x 21" Mk15 TT (3x1), 1 Hedgehog Projector Mk10 (144 rounds), 8 Mk6 depth charge projectors, 2 Mk9 depth charge tracks
Complement: 15 / 201

Breeman (DE 104) Building and Operational Data:

20 March 1943: Keel laid by the Dravo Corp., Wilmington, Del.

04 September 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Marie Breeman Schellgell, niece of the late Chief Turret Captain Breeman

date unknown: Towed from Wilmington to the Norfolk Navy Yard and completed there

12 December 1943: Commissioned at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Lcdr. Edward N. W. Hunter, USNR, in command

26 April 1946: Decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla. after 2 years and 4⅓ months of service

29 October 1948: Transferred to China, renamed T'ai Chong (F-24) (escaped with Nationalist Forces to Taiwan, struck in December 1972, hulk used as fill in pier ramp construction)

22 December 1948: Struck from the NVR

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
0610402	396k	10 February 1944: the Atlantic Ocean - This photograph was taken off Norfolk, Virginia. Note the huff/duff antenna at the foretruck, in place of the SA air search radar. (U.S. Navy photo #19-N-62568 from the National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.)	Tim Rizzuto Ship's Superintendent DE Historical Museum USS Slater at Albany, N.Y.
0610404	129k	08 August 1944: The Atlantic Ocean - USS *Breeman* (DE 104) underway in the Atlantic. Photographed from USS *Card* (CVE 11). (U.S. Navy Photo #80-G-241747from the United States National Archives)	Mike Green Port Angeles, Wash.
0610403	59k	as *T'ai Chong, date / location unknown*	Waldo

Breeman History
View the USS Breeman (DE 104) DANFS history entry located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.

Breeman's Commanding Officers
Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves

Dates of Command	Commanding Officers
1.) 12 Dec. 1943 - 24 Aug. 1944	Lcdr. Edward Norman Wilson Hunter, USNR (Comm. CO) (San Francisco, Cal.)
2.) 24 Aug. 1944 - .. Dec. 1945	Lcdr. Andrew James McCrudden, USNR (Philadelphia, Pa.)
3.) .. Dec. 1945 - .. Mar. 1946	Lt.(jg) August W. Bazemore, USNR
4.) .. Mar. 1946 - 26 Apr. 1946	Lt.(jg) Walter C. Johnson, USNR (Decomm. CO)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None

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