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USS Frost (DE 144)

Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign:
N - W - U - V

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive) - Presidential Unit Citation
Second Row: American Campaign Medal - European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal w/ 7 stars - WWII Victory Medal

Specifications:
Class: Edsall
Type: FMR (geared diesel, Fairbanks-Morse reverse gear drive, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1200 tons (light), 1590 tons (full)
Length: 300' (wl), 306' (oa)
Beam: 36' 10" (extreme)
Draft: 20' 6" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 4 Fairbanks-Morse Mod. 38d81/8 geared diesel engines, 4 diesel-generators, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 21 kts
Range: 9,100 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: 8 / 201

Frost (DE 144) Building and Operational Data:

13 January 1943: Keel laid by the Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex.

21 March 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Holloway H. Frost, widow of Commander Frost

30 August 1943: Commissioned, Lcdr. T. S. Lank in command

15 April 1945: In company with Stanton (DE 247) attacked German submarine U-880 NNW of the Azores, sinking it at 01:14

18 June 1946: Decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla. after 2 years and 9⅔ months of service

01 April 1965: Struck from the NVR

29 December 1966: Sold for scrapping

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
0614408	270k	21 March 1943: Orange, Tex. - The future USS *Frost* (DE 144) being side launched at the Consolidated Steel shipyard.	Charles B. Cameron via Ron Reeves
0614402	337k	05 January 1944: Brooklyn, N.Y. - A water level starboard side view of *Frost* taken off the New York Navy Yard. (U.S. Navy photo #NARA CP-DE-144-19-N-61239 from the National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.; courtesy of Chris Wright)	Ed Zajkowski Narvon, Pa.
0614403	80k	North Atlantic, November 1944	Warren Kerrigan
0614404	169k	Homeward bound 1945	Warren Kerrigan
0614405	136k	undated wartime image	Dan Johnson
0614406	152k	undated wartime image	Dan Johnson
0614407	77k	1943	David Buell

Frost History
View the USS Frost (DE 144) DANFS history entry located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.

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

Dates of Command	Commanding Officers
1.) 30 Aug. 1943 - 29 Jan. 1944	Lcdr. Theodore Small Lank (Comm. CO)
2.) 29 Jan. 1944 - 15 Aug. 1944	Lcdr. John H. McWhorter (Los Angeles, Cal.)
3.) 15 Aug. 1944 - 27 Oct. 1945	Lcdr. Andrew E. Ritchie
4.) 27 Oct. 1945 - 18 Jun. 1946	Lt. Kedar B. Brown (Decomm. CO) (Wilmington, N.C.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name: Warren Kerrigan
E-mail: warrenk@kingwoodcable.net

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Additional Resources

USS Frost Web Site
Tin Can Sailors
The U.S. Navy Memorial
Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
The Destroyer Escort Historical Museum
The Destroyer History Foundation

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