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USS Snyder (DE 745)

Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - Z - W - L

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: American Campaign Medal
Second Row: Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 1 star - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal

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

Snyder (DE 745) Building and Operational Data:

28 April 1943: Keel laid at the Western Pipe & Steel Co., San Pedro, Cal.

29 August 1943: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Lillian J. Snyder

05 May 1944: Commissioned at Long Beach, Cal., Lcdr. E. Moore, USNR in command

.. December 1945: Decommissioned at Norfolk, Va. after 1 year and 7 months of service, towed to the Inactive Ship Storage Facility, Green Cove Springs, Fla.

10 October 1946: Towed to New York Naval Shipyard and placed "in commission, in reserve" as an NRT ship for the 3rd Naval District at New York City

.. May 1950: Recommissioned for use in the Reserve Training Program

05 May 1960: Decommissioned at the Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn., after 13 years and 7 months of service; custody to CO, New York Group, U. S. Atlantic Reserve Fleet

01 August 1972: Struck from the NVR with a total of 15 years and 2 months of service

01 November 1973: Sold for scrapping to the North American Smelting Co., Wilmington, Del.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
0674506	296k	29 August 1943: San Pedro, Cal. - *Snyder* (DE 745) slides down the launch way at Western Pipe & Steel Corp. (U.S. Navy photo from the National Archives, courtesy of Chris Wright)	Ed Zajkowski Narvon, Pa.
0674505	296k	16 May 1944: off the California coast - A photo of USS *Snyder* (DE 745) taken from an airship of LTA Squadron ZP-31. (Official U.S. Navy Photo from The U.S. Government Printing Office 1942 #16-10585)	David Buell
0674507	66k	undated post-war images	Nick Tiberio Shelton, Conn.
0674508	40k	undated post-war images	Nick Tiberio Shelton, Conn.
0674503	46k	1948: location unknown - *Snyder* moored	Bob Hurst Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
0674504	119k	Summer 1950: "I sailed as a Sea Scout on *Snyder* from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to Bermuda and back. Quite an experience for a 14 year old. We were treated as regular crew members. We got to conn the ship, fire the 20mm's, roll off the depth charges, and peel potatoes. We were accompanied by USS *Kyne* (DE 744). While moored alongside *Kyne* in Bermuda, a deck washdown resulted in an all out firehose water fight between the ships. This ended abruptly when someone trained his hose on *Kyne*s' flying bridge. I've often wondered how many kids got to go on these training cruises. Upon our return, we were presented with an 8x10 of the ship."	Russ Glindmyer
0674502	102k	April 1951: off New York City - The funnel has been painted differently, probably in anti-corrosive undercoat, but the ship is otherwise in peacetime haze gray. She differs little from wartime form except for the addition of extra radio aerials on mast. (U.S. Navy Photo #66360 from the collection of The National Archives)	Bob Hurst Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
0651003	118k	March / April 1954: Charlotte Amalie, the Virgin Islands - USS *Heyliger* (DE 510), USS *Kyne* (DE 744), and *Snyder* on a port visit to the U.S. Sub Base in the Virgin Islands.	Rod Sienkiewicz
0651009	129k	March / April 1954: Charlotte Amalie, the Virgin Islands - sailors enjoying swim call off *Kyne*'s fantail.	Rod Sienkiewicz
0674509	301k	October 1973: Philadelphia, Pa. - ex-USS *Snyder* (DE 745) in mothballs at the Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, U.S. Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia. (Heilenday photo #II 0200A from the Heilenday Collection)	Mark Heilenday Virginia Beach, Va, Captain, USN (ret.) June 1974 - July 2004

Snyder History
View the USS Snyder (DE 745) DANFS history entry located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.
View the official War History of USS Snyder as submitted by the ship at war's end.

Snyder's Commanding Officers
Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler

Dates of Command	Commanding Officers
1.) 05 May 1944 – 30 Jan. 1946	Lcdr./Cmdr. Elmer Moore, USNR (Comm. CO)
2.) 30 Jan. 1946 – 15 Apr. 1946	Lt.(jg) Alexander C. Tomlinson, USNR
3.) 15 Apr. 1946 - .. .... ....	Lt.(jg) Joseph J. McBride Jr., USNR
6.) .. Jul. 1954 - .. Feb. 1956	Cmdr. James Roscoe Branscome, USN
7.) .. Feb. 1956 - .. Feb. 1958	Lcdr. Ernest Sylvester Cornwall Jr., USN (USNA ‘44) (Washington, D.C.)
8.) .. Feb. 1958 - .. .... ....	Lcdr. David Metcalf Richards, USN

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name: M. Edward Arnold
Address: 3235 Ames Avenue
City/State: Kingman AZ 86401
Phone: (928) 692-9190
E-mail: DD547@citlink.net

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Additional Resources

Tin Can Sailors
The U.S. Navy Memorial
The Destroyer Escort Historical Museum
The Destroyer History Foundation
Tin Can Sailors Shipmate Registry - USS Snyder

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