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USS Coates (DE 685)

Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: N T R G
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "CARBONDALE"

CLASS: Rudderow      TYPE: TEV (turbo-electric drive, long hull, 5" guns)
Displacement: 1,450 tons (std) 1,810 tons (full)    Dimensions: 306' (oa), 300' (wl) x 36' 11.5" x 13' 9" (max)
Armament: 2-5"/38 Mk30, 4 (2x2) 40mm Mk1 AA, 10 x 20mm/70 Mk 4 AA, 3 x 21" Mk15 TT (3x1),
1 Hedgehog Projector Mk10 (230 rounds), 8 Mk6 depth charge projectors (40), 2 Mk9 depth charge tracks (60)
Machinery: 2 CE boilers, G.E. turbines with electric drive, 12000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 knots    Range: 5,050 nm @ 12 knots    Crew: 12 / 192

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Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bethlehem Steel, Quincy MA on 8 November 1943, Launched 12 December 1943
Commissioned 24 January 1944
Planned conversion to APD-138 cancelled
Decommissioned 16 April 1946, Recommissioned 7 February 1951
Assigned to NRT, 3rd Naval District at New York City 21 November 1957
NRT assignment shifted to New Haven CT 19 September 1960
Decommissioned 30 January 1970, Stricken 30 January 1970

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Fate: sunk as target 19 September 1971

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Contributed By And/Or Copyright
	72k	undated wartime image		J. T. Wammack, CM/1c, USNR
	124k	undated WWII photo (on back: "Printed by E.E. Hilderbrandt")		Nick Tiberio USS Coates (5/65-9/67, 1/69-1/70)
	114k	circa '50's		Nick Tiberio
	124k	22 June 1958: Brooklyn NY - At the Brooklyn Navy yard, shortly before they started scrapping Enterprise (CV 6) by first cutting off her tripod mast; she was sold for scrapping 10 days later, on 2 July.  The carrier on the opposite side of the pier is USS Independence (CVA 62) nearing completion. Ships visible in the left foreground include (from front): USS DeLong (DE 684), USS Coates (DE 685) and USS Hoe (SS 258). Ten other destroyers are also present, as is a "Liberty" type ship.  The F. & M. Schaefer brewery is visible in the center background; the longest and last operating brewery in New York City (when it was closed in 1976), and America's oldest lager beer brewing company.		Steve Whitby
	118k	circa 1960's. Location is Hampton Roads, VA. Photo Credit to Nobe Smith, Atlantic Fleet Sales.		Nick Tiberio
	126k	1965 New Haven, CT		Nick Tiberio
	156k	undated		Nick Tiberio

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View the USS Coates (DE-685), DANFS history entry
located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site.

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information

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