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USS Pride (DE 323)

Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - T - L - U

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive)
Second Row: American Campaign Medal - European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal w/ 3 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

Pride (DE 323) Building and Operational Data:

12 April 1943: Keel laid at the Consolidated Steel Co., Orange, Tex.

03 July 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Lewis Bailey Pride, mother of Ensign Lewis Bailey Pride, Jr.

13 November 1943: Commissioned, Cmdr. R. R. Curry, USCG, in command

18 March 1945: Pride, in company with Menges (DE 320), Mosley (DE 321), and Lowe (DE 325) sank the German submarine U-866, south of Nova Scotia

26 April 1946: Decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla. after 2 years and 5½ months of service

02 January 1971: Struck from the NVR

30 January 1974: Sold for scrapping

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
0632301	7k	Lewis Bailey Pride, Jr., born at Miami, Fla. on 22 April 1919, was appointed Midshipman from Kentucky 23 June 1937. He was commissioned an Ensign 07 February 1941, and reported on board *Oklahoma* 13 March 1941. Ensign Pride and 428 shipmates were killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 07 December 1941. USS *Pride* (DE 323) (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
0610105	327k	early 1944: USS *Hamul* (AD 20) with (from left to right) DEs USS *Calcaterra* (DE 390); USS *Pride* (DE 323); USS *Falgout* (DE 324); USS *Alger* (DE 101) and USS *Eichenberger* (DE 202), alongside at Bermuda. Note HF/DF antenna visible on three of the five DEs, and the two-tone Measure 22 camouflage on four of the five DEs. (U.S. Naval Historical Center photo #NH 86271, courtesy of the Captain D.L. Madeira Collection)	Bob Hurst Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
0632302	80k	1944: The Mediterranean Sea	David Buell
0632303	162k
0632304	120k
0632305	144k
0632306	236k	1944: *Pride* nested with other DE's in an unknown Mediterranean port.
091901702	95k	USS *Mattole* (AO 17) refueling *Pride* by the astern method, 17 August 1944. USS *Newell* (DE 322) is approaching from the far right. (U.S. National Archives Photo # 80-G-245464, a U.S. Navy photo now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives.)	Bob Hurst Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
0632307	36k	February / March 1945: underway in the North Atlantic	Andy Cisternino RM1c, USGC
140a.htm	36k	02 March 1973: Auction Offering Booklet for the following ships ex-DE's 140 (*J.R.Y. Blakely), 249 (Marchand), 323 (Pride), and 392 (Merrill); ex-DD's 598 (Bancroft) and 617 (Ordronaux*)	Tim Rizzuto Ship's Superintendent DE Historical Museum USS Slater at Albany, N.Y. and Ed Zajkowski Narvon, Pa.

Pride History
View the USS Pride (DE 323) DANFS history entry located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.
View the official War History of USS Pride as submitted by the ship at war's end.

Pride's Commanding Officers
Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves

Dates of Command	Commanding Officers
1.) 13 Nov. 1943 - 07 Jun. 1944	Cmdr. Ralph R. Curry, USCG
2.) 07 Jun. 1945 - 01 Sep. 1945	Lcdr. Winslow H. Buxton, USCG
3.) 01 Sep. 1945 - 26 Apr. 1946	Lt. Leroy A. Cheney, USCG (New York City, N.Y.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None

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Additional Resources

USS Pride Scrapbook of William Valencheck
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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