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USS Scroggins (DE 799)

Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - Y - K - J

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 - WWII Victory Medal

Specifications:
Class: Buckley
Type: TE (turbine-electric drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1400 tons (light), 1740 tons (full)
Length: 300' (wl), 306' (oa)
Beam: 36' 9" (extreme)
Draft: 10' 6" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 2 "D" Express boilers, G.E. turbines with electric drive, 12000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 kts
Range: 6,000 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 / 198

Scroggins (DE 799) Building and Operational Data:

04 September 1943: Keel laid by the Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., Orange, Tex.

06 November 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Dartha Hardin, sister of Aviation Radioman Scroggins

30 March 1944: Commissioned at Orange, Tex., Lcdr Herbert Kriloff in command

15 June 1946: Decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla. after 2 years and 3½ months of service

05 July 1965: Struck from the NVR

05 April 1967: Sold for scrapping to the Peck Iron and Metals Co., Portsmouth, Va.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
0679902	16k	December 1944	Wayne E. Cook Baker 2nd Class
0679903	160k	Crew Photo, December 1944	Wayne E. Cook Baker 2nd Class
0679904	77k	October 1945: Philadelphia, Pa. - USS *Scroggins* (DE 799) at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The bridge shows modifications, and two twin 40 mm Bofors have been added in place of the torpedo tube position. Note the rangefinder for the 3"/50 guns on the bridge. *Scroggins* is in Measure 22 camouflage (Navy Blue and Haze Gray); inboard of her, by contrast is a 'Rudderow' class DE in the sombre Measure 11 scheme - overall Navy Blue. (Photos and text taken from "American Destroyer Escorts of World War 2" by Peter Elliott)	Bob Hurst Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

Scroggins History
View the USS Scroggins (DE 799) DANFS history entry located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.
View the official War History of USS Scroggins as submitted by the ship at war's end.

Scroggins' Commanding Officers
Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler

Dates of Command	Commanding Officers
1.) 30 Mar. 1944 – 01 Jul. 1945	Lt. / Lcdr. Herbert Kriloff, USN (Comm. CO) (USNA ‘39) (Chicago, Ill.)
2.) 01 Jul. 1945 – 20 Nov. 1945	Lcdr. James Alford Stapleton, USNR (Decatur, Ga.)
3.) 20 Nov. 1945 – 23 Feb. 1946	Lcdr. Michael Joseph Hanley Jr., USN (USNA ‘40) (Washington, D.C.)
4.) 23 Feb. 1946 – 15 Jun. 1946	Lcdr. James Hervey Batcheller Jr., USN (Decomm. CO) (USNA ‘41) (Point Lookout, Corvallis, Ore.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None

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