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USS Stern (DE 187)

Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - Q - D - D

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 2 stars
Second Row: European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal w/ 1 star - WWII Victory Medal - Philippine Liberation Ribbon

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

Stern (DE 187) Building and Operational Data:

12 August 1943: Keel laid by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corp., Port Newark, N.J.

31 October 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Joan M. Stern

01 December 1943: Commissioned, Cmdr. James R. Hinton, USNR, in command

26 April 1946: Decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla. after 2 years and months 4 of service

01 March 1951: Struck from the NVR; transferred (MAP) to the Netherlands, renamed HMNS Van Zijll (F-811)

15 December 1967: Returned to U.S. custody

February 1968: Sold for scrapping to Simons Scheepsslooperis N.V., Rotterdam

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
0618701	8k	Charles M. Stern, Jr., the son of Charles senior and Esther H. Barnet was born in Albany, N.Y., on 10 March 1915. He enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve on 01 August 1940. He was assigned to active duty on 22 November 1940 and appointed ensign on 28 February 1941. Ensign Stern was ordered to duty in the battleship USS *Oklahoma* (BB 37) on 09 April 1941 and was killed when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 07 December of that year. Through DNA testing Ensign Stern's body was identified in 2018. His remains were sent home to Albany, N.Y. on 19 July 2019 and he was reinterred, witth full military honors, next to his parents at the Beth Emeth Cemetery in Loudonvillle, N.Y. USS *Stern* (DE 187) (1943-1946) was the first ship named in his honor. (Photo from The Official Web Site of the USS Oklahoma (BB 37) thanks to Kevin King)	Bill Gonyo Downey, Cal. Assoc. Researcher Navsource
0618702	98k	10 December 1943: *Stern* off the coast of New York, en route to shakedown in Bermuda.	Thomas A. Staley SOM2c
0618703	104k	in the North Atlantic, 1944
0618704	77k	in the North Atlantic, 1944
0618706	169k	1944	David Buell
0618807	56k	HMNS *Dubois* (F-809)(ex USS *O'Neill* DE 188) and HMNS *Van Zijll* (F-811)(ex USS *Stern* DE 187) in Yokosuka harbor 1954.	©John Wolf L/S R/P 2
0618705	18k	late 1960: Taken at the Den Helder Navy Yard in the Netherlands.	Robert Ruiter Amsterdam, the Netherlands
0618707	361k	undated: HMNS *Van Zijll* (F-811)(ex USS *Stern* DE 187) at an unknown port.	Pim Van Wijngaarden Dutch Embassy Washington, D.C. via Tim Rizzuto Ship's Superintendent DE Historical Museum USS Slater at Albany, N.Y.

Stern History
View the USS Stern (DE 187) DANFS history entry located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.
View the official War History of USS Stern as submitted by the ship at war's end.

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

Dates of Command	Commanding Officers
1.) 01 Dec. 1943 - 31 Mar. 1945	Lcdr. James R. Hinton, Jr., USNR (Comm. CO) (Greensboro, N.C.)
2.) 31 Mar. 1945 - 07 Nov. 1945	Lcdr. Charles Francis Wilson, USNR (Warm Springs, Ore.)
3.) 07 Nov. 1945 - 26 Apr. 1946	Lt. Cloyd A. Linville, USNR (Decomm. CO) (Crescent, Okla.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None

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