USS Cronin

History
United States
Ordered	1942
Builder	Defoe Shipbuilding Company
Laid down	19 October 1943
Launched	5 January 1944
Commissioned	5 May 1944
Recommissioned	9 February 1951
Decommissioned	4 December 1953
Reclassified	13 September 1950 from DE-704 to DEC-704; 27 December 1957 from DEC-704 to DE-704;
Stricken	1 June 1970
Fate	Sunk as target, 16 December 1971
General characteristics
Class & type	Buckley-class destroyer escort
Displacement	1400 tons standard 1740 tons full load
Length	306 ft (93 m)
Beam	37 ft (11 m)
Draft	9.5 ft (2.9 m) standard,; 11.25 ft (3.43 m) full load;
Propulsion	2 boilers, General Electric Turbo-electric drive 2 solid manganese-bronze 3600 lb 3-bladed propellers, 8.5 ft (2.6 m) diameter, 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) pitch 12,000 hp (8.9 MW) 2 rudders
Speed	23 knots (43 km/h)
Range	359 tons oil 3,700 nautical miles (6,900 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement	15 officers, 198 men
Armament	3 x 3 in (76 mm) cal. guns (76.2 mm) 4 x 1.1"/75 caliber gun Anti-Aircraft guns (1x4) 8 x 20 mm 3 x 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (1x3) 1 x hedgehog projector 8 x depth charge projectors (K-guns) 2 x depth charge tracks

USS Cronin (DE/DEC-704) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946 and from 1951 to 1953. She was sunk as a target in 1971.